'Hallo, over here!' In 1954, even if re-armed West Germany cannot accede to the abandoned European Defence Community, the doors of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) remain wide open to the West German troops.
On 1 September 1954, the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) issues a statement on the international political situation following the rejection, two days earlier, of the plan for a European Defence Community (EDC) by the French National Assembly.
‘I don't know what effect he'll have on the enemy, but by heaven! - he frightens me' On 26 May 1952, the day before the signing of the Treaty instituting the European Defence Community (EDC), the British cartoonist Cummings portrays French fears about the risk of German rearmament.
‘Konrad Greenfingers.' In the 1950s, Ernst Maria Lang, German cartoonist, emphasises the efforts of Konrad Adenauer, German Chancellor, to secure the rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).
'Under the protection of the ally - the Paris-Bonn Axis'. In June 1963, the Soviet weekly publication Krokodil strongly condems Franco-German cooperation, seen by the USSR as being the first step towards German rearmament.
