Word: hendrikus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made by them each week, every Sunday morning, when they go to church." To the Nazis' annoyance, Dutch churches still pray for "Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, other members of the Royal Family and The Netherlands Government." A typical Calvinist leader is outspoken 71-year-old ex-Premier Hendrikus Colijn, editor of the Standaard. At a mass meeting recently at Scheveningen he said: "Whoever knows anything about our people knows that we will have nothing to do with imported extremism. . . . We have shown the occupying Power that we cannot shed our national characteristics in choosing the political path we wish...
...Dutch preparedness program which, while not calculated to do more than delay Germany until Allied reinforcements arrived, was a wide departure from her unarmed neutrality in the last war. It helped cover Belgium's vital interests to the north. Wilhelmina was urged to adopt it by patriarchal Hendrikus Colijn, long her most trusted adviser. Last week the Dutch defense system stood ready and the men in it, commanded by hard-bitten old General Henri Gerard Winckelman, had their...