Cartoon opposing the plan for a European army appearing in the Belgian Communist newspaper Le Drapeau rouge: 'Go right ahead. Nobody will recognise you.'
In February 1952, German cartoonist Beuth takes an ironic look at the efforts made by German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer for the potential future integration of West German troops into a European army while he is already facing difficulties over the settlement of the Saar question.
Am 5. März 1952 äußert sich Bundeskanzler Konrad Adenauer während einer Rundfunksendung über die mögliche Eingliederung der deutschen Truppen in eine europäische Armee und verteidigt die Europapolitik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
On 4 February 1952, a report of the Paris Conference on the European Defence Community (EDC) project details the general objectives and principles of the future EDC and reviews the proposed solutions in the military, institutional and financial fields.
On 30 April 1952, the Luxembourg legation to the Conference on the Organisation of a European Defence Community drafts a note on the particular situation of Luxembourg with regard to the provision of its military forces within the EDC.
‘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.
