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2 unusual facts about Guy Mollet


France–Israel relations

In Michael Karpin's 2001 documentary A Bomb in the Basement, Abel Thomas, chief of political staff for France's defense minister at the time said Francis Perrin, head of the French Atomic Energy Commission, advised then-Prime Minister Guy Mollet that Israel should be provided with a nuclear bomb.

French legislative election, 1956

The coalition cabinet was led by the Socialist leader Guy Mollet.


1956 in France

10 September - Guy Mollet visits London and proposes a merger of France and the United Kingdom.


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