Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this spirit, Mr. Editor, that I write this letter to you. Tiny Holland, after giving support to the refugees of the warring nations in World War No. 1, has to ask for help itself now. Thousands of Hollanders saw their possessions destroyed overnight. A procession of war stricken refugees, including hundreds of students like you and me, began to tread the road of desperate flight. To help these people, a committee has been organized under the presidency of Hendrik Willom van Loon. This "Queen Wilhelmina Fund" has a New England chapter under the presidency of Professor Auer of Harvard University...
Only a fortnight ago, Holland was involved in the gigantic struggle of the great powers of western Europe. In 5 days the main part of my country was either laid waste or reduced to ashes. The tulip fields, in full bloom, the pride of every Hollander, portrayed a symbol of the country's desolate destruction after the wheels of Mars' juggernaut had trampled them. For a few days, the whole world's attention was focussed on Holland. Then, the war moved on. New battles took place and my country's plight no longer was expressed in the headlines...
...ring and their commanding generals-von Brauchitsch, Keitel, Milch, Guderian-contemplated their operations map of Western Europe with profound satisfaction. Everything was working according to plan. Attack has always appealed to the German mind. And now they had such an attack! Their first push had already driven straight across Holland to Rotterdam. Before the Allied Armies rushing northward from the French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift and fierce German drive cracked the Liége defenses the second day. *Headquarters watched the progress of German...
...seems likely that the German Army, preceded by its powerful tanks, will roll in through Holland to Belgium where it is ardently to be hoped that the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liege will . . . stop them. If not, it would move toward our northern frontier, 350 kilometers wide...
...world is the good reporter's hunting ground. No man can tell where a nose for news may pick up the scent. Stories may break in the White House, the Holland tunnel, the Balkans, the South Pole. Number 10 Downing Street, or 1913 Central Avenue, South Bend...