Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holland's first postwar cabinet, as Social Affairs Minister, Reliable Man Drees became Vadertje (Little Father) Drees, for under his paternalistic hand the government voted children's allowances, homes for the aged, jobs for disabled workers-the good works of plodding sewer socialism. In 1948 Drees, a freethinker who belongs to no church, moved into the Premier's big, sober room at No. 4, Plain 1813, The Hague, to head a coalition of Catholics and Socialists...
Last week, Drees's sewer socialism faced the test as 94% of Holland's electorate (voting is compulsory) queued up quietly to choose the 100 members of the all-important Second Chamber (Lower House) of Parliament. Public-opinion polls had predicted little change: the Catholics would retain the No. 1 spot, the Socialists would, as usual, be close behind. But when the returns were in, Papa Drees had pulled a Harry Truman-though unlike Truman, he was as surprised as anyone else...
...will carry almost as many. Like the planes, tourist space on the stately Queens, the elegant Ile de France, the Independence, Constitution, and all the other liners, is sold out till September. By midsummer, France will add her 23-knot, 20,300-ton Flandre to the transatlantic fleet, and Holland will put her 15,000-ton, 875-passenger Maasdam into service. But the prize of the new ships is the United States Lines' new superliner United States, the biggest passenger ship ever built in the U.S., and the third largest in the world. On her first speed trials last...
...different documents. Next came Belgium's Paul van Zeeland and France's Schuman, who obliged sound photographers with a running commentary: "We are now about to sign the mutual guarantee between EDC and the United Kingdom . . .We are now signing the NATO guarantee." Italy, Luxembourg and Holland followed. "Put some light on De Gasperi," shouted a cameraman, and there was light. After half-an-hour's scribbling, the ink was dry; so were the ministers. Arm in arm they marched out of the chamber to sample the Quai d'Orsay's champagne...
Asked to specify the language Holland had used, she said she couldn't think of anything in particular. Holland asserted he would be glad to defend himself in court, claiming he could produce about ten witnesses to testify that he had not blasphemed...