Hands Across the Rhine.

The article focuses on the conversation of France President Georges Pompidou and German Chancellor Willy Brandt in Paris, France in January 1973 on issues related to the treaty of cooperation. It says that Pompidou and Brandt were proud of the treaty's tenth anniversary and reaffirmed their goal of attaining European unity by 1980. However, the affirmation of Brandt stressing that European Union's security interests concur with those of the Atlantic alliance got stony silence from the French.