‘… We have already finished eating and drinking!’ On 19 September 1950, in New York, Dean Acheson, Ernest Bevin and Robert Schuman — respectively US Secretary of State, British Foreign Secretary and French Foreign Minister — consider the German question. On this occasion, the Dutch cartoonist, Opland, illustrates the turmoil stirred up by the implications of German rearmament for the French Foreign Minister and the British Foreign Secretary.