‘The lord’s visit or the Bonn impromptu. Well, Madame, at your age, my compliments! Maybe we should resort to the belt thing?’ On 3 July 1963, just a few months after the signing of the Élysée Treaty, French cartoonist Roland Moisan paints an ironic picture of the attempts by Konrad Adenauer, depicted as a queen, to develop closer relations with US President John F. Kennedy. This Atlanticist shift in West German policy is met with astonishment and irritation by General de Gaulle (on the left), who, accompanied by his Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, criticises this lack of loyalty from Germany. In the background on the right, we can make out Ludwig Erhard, Federal Minister for the Economy, who is an Atlanticist and is in favour of establishing close relations with the United States.