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   From: don-aitken@freeuk.com   
      
   On 15 Jan 2007 16:18:33 -0800, "Ariadne"    
   wrote:   
      
   >   
   >banana wrote:   
   >   
   >> The proposal to unite the UK and France into a single country, made in   
   >> 1956 (as also in 1940), is old news. Why is the BBC putting it out now?   
   >>   
   >   
   >The 50-year rule, probably.   
      
   Which has been a thirty-year rule for a long time. The story is   
   comprehensively dealt with in at least one recently published work on   
   the Suez crisis. This simple answer to "why now" is that lazy   
   journalists like aniversaries - if they can't find any real stories,   
   they regurgitate something from their own organisation's archives of   
   ten, twenty or fifty years ago.   
      
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