‘Buried alive … Acheson:… “Let bygones be bygones!”’ On 13 September 1952, at the first meeting in Luxembourg of the Special Council of Ministers of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC), the Dutch cartoonist, Opland, illustrates the determination of the Six (under the watchful eye of the United States) to put an end to the wars which have torn apart the Old Continent and to work together for the establishment of a united Europe.