‘Everything is good in a chicken! I love you … a little … a lot …’ On 6 August 1954, French cartoonist Josep Paz paints an ironic picture of the unenviable position awaiting France in the event of West German rearmament. The French Gallic rooster symbolising the Fourth Republic is being plucked by a young Germania, who is feigning innocence with her neat plaits and wearing what seems to be a steel Viking helmet. Paz draws attention to the militarist tendencies of Germany, which, despite the reassuring words of its leaders, represents a real threat to French security.