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UK, French Leaders Mark WWII Broadcast

Posted by admin on Jun 18, 2010

The leaders of France and Britain hailed their nations’ battle-forged ties Friday, as they marked 70 years since Charles de Gaulle’s stirring radio appeal for the French to resist Nazi occupation.

In a ceremony in London attended by World War II veterans, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister David Cameron also paid tribute to their soldiers who fought together in the last century and now, in Afghanistan.

Accompanied by his wife, ex-model Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the president had earlier met with Prince Charles and visited the BBC studio where the exiled de Gaulle issued the rousing appeal to his compatriots back home on June 18, 1940.

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