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France and Great Britain shall no longer be two nations, but one Franco-British Union. The constitution of the Union will provide for joint organs of defence, foreign, financial and economic policies. Every citizen of France will enjoy immediately citizenship of Great Britain, every British subject will become a citizen of France.
France had only the Franco-Russian Alliance. The agreement threatened Germany, whose policy had long relied on Franco-British antagonism. A German attempt to check the French in Morocco in 1905 (the Tangier Incident, or First Moroccan Crisis), and thus to upset the Entente, served only to strengthen it.
The proposal of a Franco-British Union to shore up support for Paul Reynaud's government following the fall of Paris split support. With many pro-Armistice ministers in the cabinet, such as the Deputy Prime Minister Philippe Pétain , and the commander-in-chief of the French Army General Weygand, Reynaud resigned on 16 June.
British victory in the Second Hundred Years' War. France and Britain become informal allies in the late 19th century. Entente Cordiale in 1904. Momentary disruption of the Franco-British alliance when France is occupied by Germany during World War II. Free French Forces still fight as allies with the British.
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[3] [4] The term "kqueue" refers to its function as a "kernel event queue" [1] [2] Kqueue provides efficient input and output event pipelines between the kernel and userland . Thus, it is possible to modify event filters as well as receive pending events while using only a single system call to kevent(2) per main event loop iteration.
He suggested a Franco-British Union, which the French rejected. [15] On 14 June, Paris fell and the Parisians unable to flee the city found that in most cases the Germans were extremely well mannered. [12] The air superiority established by the Luftwaffe became air supremacy, with the Armée de l'Air on the verge of collapse. [16]
The British government recognized the Franco government on the same day, and the United States government followed suit on 7 April 1939. [148] The Franco government maintained an ambiguous stance between the western democracies and the European fascists and joined the German-Japanese Anti-Comintern Pact on 24 March 1939.