Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called The Young Defenders of Liberty. He has been married for a long time now to Inza Burrage, the brunette for whom, in the old days, he once fought a mad dog. He has a nubile daughter who calls him "Daddy Frank"; his son is a war correspondent in Amsterdam. He is a liberal and a friend of labor, but no dastardly Red. He smokes now but his smoke is the manly pipe. He keeps up with the Brooklyn Dodgers in the sports pages...
...Greece they sang and danced in the streets. In London they cheered and punned ("So far and no Vardar" and, of Hitler, "Serbs 'im right"). In cellars from Warsaw to Amsterdam they shook one another's hands, for at last the "free" Governments of German-conquered nations had meaning. But the most impressive demonstration outside of Yugoslavia itself was staged in Marseille, where in 1934 a Croatian terrorist assassinated King Alexander. Almost as if by magic, men & women bearing flowers appeared at the spot where the King was shot. Soon the street was covered with flowers piled high...
Equally uncompromising is the attitude of Holland's Calvinists. The Nazi-backed Deutsche Zeitung fur die Niederlanden complains that "The Dutch churches have been veritable centres of opposition to the Reich." At a Protestant meeting in Amsterdam former Cabinet Minister J. R. Slotemaker de Bruine apostrophized the Nazis: "Do not expect us to drive out of public life that which is most holy. Spiritual freedom, freedom of church, school and opinion, lies in our very blood." About a third of The Netherlands' 8,700,000 population are Catholics, an other third strict Calvinists, the rest most ly Calvinists...
...highly regarded. When Jews in one city were charged with harboring British agents and assessed a 50,000-guilder fine to be paid within six hours, the sum was raised in time by Christians who handed the money over to the local rabbi, while in five Protestant churches in Amsterdam protests were openly uttered. When a Jewish professor was forced out of the University of Delft (Dutch M. I. T.) the students struck. Nazis closed the university the next day. Said an alumnus in the U. S.: "It makes us very proud to have our alma mater the first...
...Editor Mann, Decision was a continuation of a familiar chore. In Amsterdam, before the war, he published a refugee magazine in German, Die Sammlung ("The Collection"), which ran two years. Exile Mann got his idea for Decision last year, spent six months selling it to rich U. S. friends. Some of his backers: Edgar Kaufmann Jr. of Pittsburgh's Kaufmann department stores; Lawyer Louis Nizer, who lately published a book. Thinking On Your Feet; Mrs. Marcus Koshland of San Francisco; Father Thomas Mann. A Czech citizen, in the U. S. on a visitor's permit, Klaus Mann gets...