‘Daddies!’ On 27 October 1954, four days after the signing of the Paris Agreements restoring sovereignty to the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), French cartoonist Kb2 paints an ironic picture of the consequences of the treaty, under which the Saar territory is to be granted European status within the wider framework of Western European Union (WEU). Europe, lying in a hospital bed, proudly presents the newborn ‘Saar’ to the two ‘daddies’, Pierre Mendès France, President of the French Council, and German Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. But in the referendum held on 23 October 1955, 67.7 % of Saar voters reject the European status proposed by the Paris Agreements, and France has to accept the idea of the Saar being returned to West Germany.