Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oyster Bay and Hyde Park. Roosevelts, all distant cousins to one another, had for a common ancestor Claes Martenszen van Roosevelt, a Dutch trader who came to New Amsterdam around...
Back in the century when the King James Bible was hot off the press, and England and Holland fought for New Amsterdam, Seaman Edward Coxere spun the hair-raising story of his life in simple-seaman's language, and sewed the quires shipshape in vellum. Rats alone chewed over the MS. until 1940, when it was unearthed by a London book dealer...
...Cannot Stop Her." In Amsterdam, 9,900 miles away, Dutchmen could not bring themselves to accept so pessimistic a view, which would spell catastrophe for their country. Said Pieter de Jong, a middle-of-the-road Dutch businessman: "We've already lost our trade with Germany. If we lose Indonesia too, The Netherlands will become one of the poorest countries on the Continent. If Indonesia really wants complete freedom, we are not going to stop her and we cannot stop her. But we Netherlanders sincerely hope the Indonesians have some common sense left. If we move out, the Indonesians...
...admit that native unrest has been stirring for years. Some Hollanders were inclined to blame it all on the Japs. Said Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy, The Netherlands' wartime Premier in Exile: "We are in danger of losing the war." Others blamed it all on a Jap puppet. Said an Amsterdam cigar-store proprietor last week: "This fellow Soekarno is just a crook and a collaborator who is certainly going to turn Communist within the next five years. We have killed our own quisling Mussert in Holland-we ought to shoot Soekarho...
...view in Washington's National Gallery last week: 48 canvases by 16th and 17th Century Dutch artists. They were part of an elaborate bread-&-butter letter the Dutch Government had written the U.S. Hitler had "collected" most of the paintings from a Jewish-owned art house-Goudstikker of Amsterdam:-for a museum in memory of his mother. (He assumed that all the North European paintings he liked must necessarily be "German" in inspiration.) U.S. soldiers rediscovered the Dutch loot among 4,000 paintings hidden in a salt mine at Alt Aussee...