On 20 February 1950, in the midst of the Cold War, the US services draft an internal note on the intentions and military capabilities of the Soviet Union with regard to the United States and their allies.
On 23 October 1968, the Luxembourg Ambassador to Moscow sends a letter to the Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Pierre Grégoire, in which he refers to the risks of a return to the Cold War.
The US memorandum of action for national security n°255 describes the conditions for use of the famous 'red telephone', the direct and secure line between the White House in Washington and the Kremlin in Moscow, which would have been used, in the context of the Cold War, to warn of any nuclear attack between the two superpowers.
On 26 June 1963, the US President, John F. Kennedy, gives a historic address in the Rudolph Wilde Platz in Berlin. At the height of the Cold War, he declares ‘Ich bin ein Berliner', implying that every inhabitant of the ‘free world' is behind the Berliners in the city's American, British and French zones.
‘Two worlds in Berlin.’ On 26 June 1963, the German cartoonist, Bensch, illustrates the visit to Berlin, in the middle of the Cold War, of the US President, John F. Kennedy, and emphasises the hope of freedom that this trip imagines in the West German people faced by the oppressive, police state regime of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) led by Walter Ulbricht.
In September 1997, Jean-Luc Dehaene, Belgian Prime Minister, emphasises the importance of the relations between the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in connection with European unification after the end of the Cold War.
On 11 September 1949, referring to the prevailing Cold War climate, the Brussels periodical Le Phare Dimanche explains Europe’s dependence for its economic and military future on US foreign policy.
At the beginning of the Cold War, the ‘Molotov Plan — the definitive solution to all the world’s problems’ predicts that the world will evolve according to Communist and Soviet principles. Molotov was Soviet Foreign Minister from 1939 to 1949 and from 1953 to 1956.
On 30 January 1949, reviewing Raymond Aron’s book on the Cold War entitled The Great Schism, the Brussels weekly newspaper Le Phare Dimanche questions Europe’s role and position on the world scene.
‘After Uncle Sam’s fruitless attempts to control European politicians, Stalin could succeed by employing more flexible means.’ In January 1951, the German satirical magazine Der Tintenfisch portrays a Europe in the Cold War period that is at the centre of international issues.