Word: colijn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually discreet Prince "Benno" stayed home. Bands blared and standards were clipped to the ground as beloved Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands waddled in to read the speech from the Throne opening Parliament. As usual, the State paper was written by close-cropped and sagacious Premier Hendrikus Colijn. With Dutch industry now joining in the general world industrial pick-up springing from Rearmament. Her Majesty could and did sound an optimistic note as to Treasury finance and the general economic condition of The Netherlands last week, in sharp contrast to the bucket of cold retrenchment Her Majesty was obliged...
...economic side Her Majesty's Government have just moved far toward making peace in the cut-throat Far East freight war between Dutch and Japanese shipping companies. By quiet, patient insistence Premier Colijn has forced both Japanese and Dutch shipmen to agree upon preliminary peace terms and these will now be used by diplomats of Tokyo and The Hague in an effort to make a binding economic treaty between the Empire of Hirohito and that of Wilhelmina...
...compliments to TIME for the excellent article: "I Will Maintain!" (p. 17, Aug. 12), giving readers detailed information about The Netherlands' economics and its wealthy and shrewd queen; the noted statesman Colijn; the possessions in Indonesia which Japan covets; and "The White Front." All very interesting, particularly to those readers who follow foreign events closely...
...pound and dollar, it is certain that Indonesia would increase her sales. But is it certain that the yen, pound and dollar will not dance on down an insane spiral with no bottom? And should Dutchmen join in such a dance? Brave Retreat. In The Hague last week Premier Colijn introduced his new Cabinet thus: "We will defend the guilder against devaluation! The people of The Netherlands must maintain their spirit and assist the Government in fighting the Depression under adverse circumstances!" This sounded as if the Premier had an aggressive program of some sort. As a matter of fact...
...strengthen the Dutch frontier so heavily that the German General Staff reputedly scrapped a set of plans which was to have sent their War machine crashing across The Netherlands as well as Belgium. Today since the solution of many a World problem may again be sought in war, Premier Colijn is suspected of having tentatively and secretly reversed the most fundamental policy of The Netherlands: neutrality...