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...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...
Piqued, the Conference Secretariat produced a letter signed by Chief U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull apparently authorizing the 10% tariff slash proposal. Faced with this, Senator Pittman insisted that it was "unofficial." To a Dutchman a signature is final. Chairman Colijn told the Economic Committee that the U. S. proposal had been made, left the entire Conference up in the air as to what Washington's tariff policy might...
...Netherlands. Queen Wilhelmina, the Prince Consort and Premier Colijn toured the flooded districts in a motorboat followed by a second boat loaded with provisions for distribution to marooned sufferers. The floods in the valleys of the Lek and Waal were described as -"catastrophic." Numberless fresh water dykes burst. The enormous hydro-electric pumps installed against just such an emergency were barely able to save the country from irretrievable damage...