Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governed by the inexorable requirements of existence, life went on- even in Rotterdam. In The Hague, Amsterdam, Utrecht, other large cities, theatres reopened, papers came out (under German "guidance") cafés did good business in the spring sunshine. Along Amsterdam's quays the familiar flower barges once more set out jonquils, tulips, forget-me-nots, pansies for sale. At The Hague, where bombs had dropped on the Government Plein (square), swarms of bicycles returned to the pavements...
...their rich, paneled offices off an awninged terrace overlooking the Hudson in downtown Manhattan, officials of the Dutch diamond firm of J. K. Smit & Sons were solemn last week. Amsterdam and their home office were in Nazi hands. So, too, they feared, were snow-haired Johan Smit, head of the firm, and Joop, the second of his three partner-sons, who was with the Dutch Army. Suddenly came a cablegram, signed by Johan's oldest son, Jan: how soon could Smit's Manhattan office get and ship 500 diamond-cutting saws to London...
Refugees. Until last week, Amsterdam was the most important point in Europe for news transmission. Accessible by wire and wireless to both sides of the front, with its own cables to the U. S., neutral Amsterdam had supplanted London and Paris as news centres. United Press had 15 men in Amsterdam, headed by Clifford Day, who first flashed the news of German invasion...
...Tuesday morning Nazi troops rolled into Amsterdam, and all communication with The Netherlands fell silent. Marooned there, with most of U. P.'s staff. were other newsmen who had stuck to their posts, including Reilly O'Sullivan and Max Harrelson of Associated Press. One was the New York Herald Tribune'?, 27-year-old Seymour Beach Conger, expelled from Germany six months ago (TIME, Nov. 27) for filing unfavorable dispatches. His wife, Marion Conger, meanwhile covered the war in Paris...
...Holland's gold (some $690,000,000) into hiding in the U. S. and Britain. Gone was the bulk of her vast holding of international securities ($1,076,000,000 in the U. S. alone); the last bundle of engraved paper to be rescued was lugged from Amsterdam by a British officer who pushed off from Ijmuiden to England in a commandeered motor boat after Amsterdam had fallen. Gone was her stock of diamonds: the last store, worth several million dollars, was snaked out of Amsterdam to London by a diamond merchant after the terror had struck...