Illustrating the opposition of General de Gaulle, President of the French Republic, to the United Kingdom’s accession to the European Communities, the British cartoonist, Michael Cummings, takes an ironic look at the list of French demands which the French Prime Minister, Georges Pompidou, must have accepted.

‘Harold Wilson’s nightmare.’ In 1968, the cartoonist Fritz Behrendt describes British Prime Minister Harold Wilson’s nightmare when, like his counterpart Harold Macmillan in 1963, he comes up against General de Gaulle’s veto on British accession to the European Communities.