Word: hendrikus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 69-year-old Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer, leader of The Netherlands' Christian Historical Party, talked like a Dutch uncle to his parliamentary colleagues. They had just turned in a vote of no confidence in old Dr. Hendrikus Colijn, thereby throwing out a Ministry that had lasted two days. Basic issue was unemployment relief: Catholics and Socialists wanted to know why, if the Government could spend $165,000,000 on three new cruisers, it could not spend $17,000,000 on Holland's 350,000 unemployed...
...more than a century of Dutch constitutional government there have been only 33 Cabinets. No. 1 Dutch Cabinet maker is old Dr. Hendrikus Colijn. Last week the onetime Dutch "strong man" was sadly planning a round-the-world trip to forget that the last of his five had set the all-time Dutch low by lasting exactly two days and seven hours. Last June Calvinist Dr. Colijn was compelled to resign when his old-fashioned financial and social policies split the coalition between his Anti-Revolutionary Party and the progressive Catholics. After a month of Cabinet stasis Queen Wilhelmina...
Stanchest supporter of Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn is his soverign, Queen Wilhelmina. Dr. Colijn is a devout Calvinist and a churchman who knows his Bible backwards and forwards. Her Majesty is the apotheosis of Protestantism e conservative, strong-willed Premier believes in balanced budgets, light taxes and a strong currency even in these days of cockeyed national finances; this seems the essence of good sense to the thrifty Queen...
Last week, as reports of Air Force and troop concentrations in western Germany rolled in, Premier Hendrikus Colijn decided not to be caught napping. Dutch defense plans are to block invaders by blowing up the dikes and flooding one-third of the country, but this takes time to organize. Queen Wilhelmina ordered border battalions mustered to full strength to forestall possible German seizure of the vital sluice gates. Machine guns were placed along the border and reservists were ordered ready for instant service. Harbors and roads were mined. Amsterdam's great commercial airport was commandeered by the Government...
Ceremonious, courageous and irascible Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn should like ceremonious, courageous and irascible George Gordon. Cracked a State Department official two years ago when Minister Gordon was dispatched south: "When the Haitians get to know George, they'll think we have sent them back the United States Marines." Matter of fact, deeply cultured Mr. Gordon was astonished and charmed by the erudite French culture he found typical of many mulatto statesmen in Haiti, and it was fun for diminutive Mrs. Gordon to appear at a Haitian ball one night with dashing Dictator Trujillo of the nearby Dominican...