Cartoon by Köhler on the complexity of Chancellor Adenauer’s foreign policy (23 January 1963)

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‘The Chancellor’s visit, or the art of not sitting between three chairs.’ On 23 January 1963, the day after the signing of the Élysée Treaty between France and the Federal Republic of Germany, German cartoonist Hanns Erich Köhler takes an ironic view of the difficult feat of contortionism that Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer is having to perform in the area of foreign policy. Adenauer knows that he cannot sacrifice his country’s alliance with the United States or its relationship with the United Kingdom on the altar of Franco-German friendship and that he must make sure he maintains good relations with all his partners.

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Source: KÖHLER, Hanns Erich. "Kanzlers Reise oder die Kunst, sich nicht zwischen drei Stühle zu setzten" dans Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Zeitung für Deutschland. Frankfurt/Main: FAZ Verlag GmbH. 23.01.1963. n°19, p.3.

Copyright: (c) Köhler / Wilhelm-Busch-Gesellschaft e.V., Hannover

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Cartoon by Köhler on the complexity of Chancellor Adenauer’s foreign policy (23 January 1963)