Word: colijn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...living Sphinx of the Netherlands, crop-haired, eagle-beaked Premier Hendrik Colijn has brought Her Majesty's Government unscathed through Communist brickbat assaults and the worst of Depression only to face last week the "Dutch Nazis." For stanch old Dr. Colijn it was exquisitely embarrassing to have to explain to his strong-minded Queen, Nazi-contemptuous Wilhelmina, how it has come about that one of the Premier's own sons is a "Dutch Nazi...
Elections last week were for the Netherlands' provincial councils in which Premier Colijn's coalition has had a majority strength of 58%. Hitherto Engineer Mussert, much addicted to quiet maneuvering behind the scenes, has put up no candidates, saying "The N. S. B. is a movement, not a party." Last week when votes were counted the Colijn coalition strength was still a rock-ribbed 58% majority but other Dutch parties had lost to Mussert some 8% of the vote, thus giving N. S. B. 39 seats in ten provincial chambers...
...days later Communist Deputies in the Dutch Parliament demanded a debate on the Amsterdam riots and the issue that is breeding trouble: reduction by Her Majesty's Government of dole payments to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week. Boomed Premier Dr. Hendrik Colijn, "We do not consent to debate this issue." By a vote of 58 to 24 he was upheld and scowling Dutch proletarians cursed their Queen...
...Majesty's Government," announced Premier Dr. Hendrik Colijn, "cannot permit any Dutch municipality to adopt an attitude hostile to a nation with which the relations of Her Majesty's Government are friendly...
...foresee," he cried without explaining what he meant, "an entirely new order created by the Bank of International Settlements. ... Of course it can have no arbitrary powers. ... Its services are simply available if desired."* As chairman of the other great Conference working body, the Economic Commission, dry Premier Hendrikus Colijn of the Netherlands tersely remarked, "We have no need to congratulate ourselves...