Word: drost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody in the little (pop. 6,000) Netherlands town of Borculo knows anyone in Warren, Ark. personally. Nevertheless, last month the farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from his friend Cnoop Koopmans, the Dutch consul general in New York. Warren, Koopmans wrote, had just been struck low by a tornado (TIME, Jan. 17). In Borculo there was scarcely an adult who did not remember vividly the time his town had met the same fate...
...wind died down, they had needed help badly, and help had come from many quarters. Now, they thought, it was their turn to help. Around a big potbellied stove in Harry Tijdink's tavern, an "Aid Warren Committee" promptly met to talk it over. "At least," said Drost, "we can show our sympathy in something more than words." "Right," agreed Farmer Jan Dave, as the campaign got under way. "Our help won't amount to much. But the nice thing is that it brings us all together and we forget our differences...