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...short-wave broadcast, Dutch Premier Dirk Jan de Geer called the 21 arrested fifth columnists "dangerous to the peace and security" of The Netherlands, declared that they were not interned because of their political beliefs but because of their personal conduct. Nazi Chief Anton Adrian Mussert was not arrested last week. Neither was he impressed by the Premier's speech. "I am certainly happy to be living in a democracy-in a free country," sneered Mussert...
...theory that they would stand the climate best, Canadians and rugged Scots regiments made up the initial British force. At their head was Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, a 60-year oldster chosen not merely because he is Belgian-born and can thus speak freely to his French allies, but because he has a long record of commanding where shot & shell are thickest. A Boer and World War I veteran, he has won a V. C. and lost an eye and a hand in the King's service. The General has every reason for wanting another crack...
...Netherlands did not arrest its black-shirted onetime waterworks engineer, Anton Adrian Missert (TIME, April 22), but old Dutch General Jonkheer W. Roell, a retired fire-eater who once commanded the Army, growled that shootin' was too good for traitors. He would hang 'em. The Netherlands declared a state of siege, began raiding Dutch Nazis' homes for arms and uniforms...
...Turks & Caicos), the story twists around the romance between the scion of a hardbitten, salt-making family and a disillusioned blonde who arrives from Bermuda to keep books. Hemingwaywardness bristles on the story like barnacles. But it has one claim to originality: Author Hayes's ingenuity in getting Adrian and Carol alone together on the island. Adrian's father drowns; his mother dies of neurosis; his young wife departs to have a baby, decides to stay for good; Carol's ill-charactered father is killed by blacks, who then flee the island en masse...
...Senior Sixteen are as follows: Charles G. Swain, whose field is Chemistry; Joseph N. Ball, Jr., Engineering Sciences; Israel H. Scheinberg, Bio-chemistry; Isadore N. Rosenberg, Bio-chemistry; Adrian J. P. LaRue, Music; Thomas V. Healey, Romance Languages; Enno R. Hobbing, History and Literature...