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...their crisis the Dutch showed that they still knew how to maintain law & order. One E. J. B. M. Boenninghausen, Nazi member of the 'First Chamber of Parliament, took exception to two detectives who watched the Chamber's proceedings through a half-open door, tried to jerk the door wide open. One of the detectives rapped his knuckles with a revolver butt. The other slammed the door in his face. Purple-faced Nazi Boenninghausen demanded that the detectives be removed. Replied the Chamber's President Baron de Vos van Steenwyk: "You will be the one removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Calm in Crisis | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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