On 17 May 1950, British cartoonist Leslie Gilbert Illingworth illustrates Robert Schuman’s historic proposal to pool coal and steel production in Western Europe and emphasises the importance of Franco-German rapprochement.

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Punch. or The London Charivari. 17.05.1950, No 5712; Vol. CCXVIII. London.

(c) Leslie Illingworth Associated Newspaper / Solo Syndication, London