On 21 September 1949, the Dutch journal Internationale Spectator comments on the economic and political situation of the Saar and on its implications for France and the fledgling Federal Republic of Germany (FRG).

On 26 July 1952, the Dutch daily newspaper Het Vrije Volk considers the position of the French leaders on the Europeanisation of the Saar.

On 26 April 1952, the Dutch daily newspaper Het Parool analyses the state of Franco-German relations in the light of the Saar question.

On 17 January 1950, the Dutch daily newspaper Het Vrije Volk reports on the outcome of the meeting, held two days earlier in Bonn, between Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, and Konrad Adenauer, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), on the Saar question.

On 27 February 1955, Heinrich von Brentano, President of the Parliamentary Party of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and future German Foreign Minister, recalls the conference held in Paris on Germany and the future Saar Statute.

In this note to Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, Jean Monnet sets out the terms for the participation of the Saar, which is economically attached to France, in the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC).

In August 1953, the Dutch Socialist delegate, Marinus van der Goes van Naters, rapporteur for the General Affairs Committee of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, submits his report on the Europeanisation of the Saar territory.

On 1 August 1955, the Saar Section of the pro-European movement Europa-Union shows its support for the proposed Europeanisation of the territory of the Saar on a news-stand near Saarbrücken station.

On 14 October 1953, the magazine CVP-Rundschau, the official publication of the Saar Christian People’s Party (CVP), comments on the plan of Dutch delegate Marinus van der Goes van Naters, rapporteur for the General Affairs Committee of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, which aims to make the Saar a European territory.

‘The Saar problem is starting up again … Come on, kids, push hard, and we’ll get there!’ In December 1953, the German satirical magazine Der Tintenfisch takes an ironic look at the difficulties involved in the international settlement of the Saar question.