Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tour began in 1940, when he landed at Boston ("A vast jumbled waste created by prehuman or subhuman monsters in a delirium of greed. ... It was a bad beginning"). In New York City ("the most horrible place on God's earth"), Miller bought a car, drove through the Holland Tunnel ("that damned hole") on "the beginning of the endless nightmare...
...bastion of empire the proconsuls gathered. To Singapore, at the request of handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied "Supremo" for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain's genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France's dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland's determined Hubertus J. van Mook, Acting Governor General of the East Indies. Waiting to meet them and assess their problems was Britain's peripatetic Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff. While houseboys served cooling drinks, the masters conferred on a new policy toward 94,000,000 rebellious...
...Japs. So Soekarno, while keeping nominal power, took a back seat and a new Premier appeared. The new Indonesian leader is small (4 ft. 10½ in., 100 lbs.), scholarly, socialistic Sjahrir, 36. He met his Dutch wife while studying law at Amsterdam, later saw her packed back to Holland when the Dutch exiled him for nationalist activities. He has never seen their twelve-year-old son. Sjahrir was kept in exile until 1942. During the Jap occupation he grew pineapples and helped organize the resistance movement...
...Just as the Government is willing to give, so it claims the right to deal with France, Holland, Belgium, Scandinavia or other countries - not a Western bloc - for all purposes. ... I say I am entitled, on behalf of the Government, to have good neighbors on my street, just as any other country is entitled to have good neighbors on its street. . . You will probably think I am a little energetic about this. But I am a little resentful and I think the House will agree I am entitled to be. . . ." Churchill on the Bomb. The atomic bomb...
...Dutch stood by their 1942 pledge of self-government for the Indies in a new Netherlands Commonwealth, but they boggled at dealing with Soekarno, began shipping troops from Holland to the island battlefield. British troops, holding the imperial fort until sufficient Dutch forces arrived, were caught in the middle. They were criticized by the natives for helping the Dutch, by the Dutch for haggling over the conditions of help. At week's end the Allied commander in Java, British Major General D. C. Hawthorn, proclaimed that looting, sabotage, possessing or refusing to surrender arms by natives would be punished...