Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Vught, in liberated Holland, New York Timesman James MacDonald inspected a Nazi death camp. Like Maidenek and Tremblinka in Poland, it had electrified barbed wire, lime pits, gallows, suffocation cells, dissection tables, crematories...
...meanest thing the Germans did in Holland is known at Maastricht as 'the rape of the ants.' . . . Even quisling Hollanders resented the theft of the greatest collection of ants in the world...
...Europe] as a buttress to the strengthened general world structure. ... It gives us perhaps more authority with other great powers if we speak for the Commonwealth and for our near neighbors in western Europe" (TIME, Oct. 9). In other words, with the nations of the British Commonwealth and France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, perhaps Norway and Denmark, girded round her, Britain would be a formidable Continental power...
...benefits of such a west European power bloc were chiefly political, but there were others: 1) Belgium and Holland have planned a trade agreement which is virtually a customs union, specifically designed with collaboration of France and Britain in mind; 2) Belgium hopes to coordinate her military policy with Britain's, pool her Air Force with the R.A.F...
...follow her example. The hardheaded Dutch next door will have none of it. Said one top Dutch moneyman: "The plan is psychologically dangerous; because you can't force people into virtue. It's technically too difficult to administer." Dr. Johan Beyen, Dutch delegate to Bretton Woods, said Holland plans an orthodox savings drive to sop up inflationary cash, stringent wage & price controls and a retroactive 100% excess-profits tax to grab wartime profits. But most of all Holland stresses what other Governments have ignored-heavy taxes, to bring its budget under control, the step which all European countries...