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...short-wave broadcast, Dutch Premier Dirk Jan de Geer called the 21 arrested fifth columnists "dangerous to the peace and security" of The Netherlands, declared that they were not interned because of their political beliefs but because of their personal conduct. Nazi Chief Anton Adrian Mussert was not arrested last week. Neither was he impressed by the Premier's speech. "I am certainly happy to be living in a democracy-in a free country," sneered Mussert...
...Ferargil Galleries showed the raw-colored, precise paintings of Georgian Lamar Dodd, one of the South's few good painters. The Boyer Galleries showed the kaleidoscopic water colors of Nathaniel Dirk, a camoufleur in World War I. In the Bonestell Gallery, Frenchman Jean Charlot, a founding father of the famed Mexican school, exhibited deceptively simple pictures of broad, squat peons and solemn babies. The Downtown Gallery had as fine a first one-man show as a crowded season has seen-Julian Levis serene, spacious paintings of the seaside...
...Netherlands Cabinet held a special meeting under old Premier Dirk Jan de Geer, decided that it would cancel all Army leaves. Since the usual Army leave is four days a month, this increased the Army's strength by some 10% to 400,000 men. The usually phlegmatic Dutch thought it necessary to point out that frozen canals were a very good defense indeed, since troops could be machine-gunned crossing them. It sounded like whistling in the dark...
...were warned that they "must now say whether they are willing to oppose English power politics." Most of the talk of neutral battlefields-both German and British-was aimed at Scandinavia, but The Netherlands was also under pressure. In a shaky New Year's broadcast shaky old Premier Dirk Jan de Geer exclaimed...
...when a youthful bar-comber, handsome, down-&-out U. S. engineer Bill Gregory (Robert Cummings), insults Singer Irene, she falls in love with him. Her love saves Bill from his gin-&-bitter end, sets him to piping pure water from the hills (for the peons). By the time Dirk, rather tactlessly, brings Paul to Rio after his escape from jail, Bill and Irene, happy in the thought that jungle ants and vultures have done for Paul, are all set to marry. The Freudian knot is cut by Dirk, who grapples with Paul when he tries to shoot Irene, inadvertently makes...