Word: hollande
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...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...
...transports to foreign airlines paid a fat dividend. The Royal Dutch Airlines (K.L.M.) bought 16 surplus transports and The Netherlands Government granted U.S. airlines cabotage (the right to land and embark cargo and passengers en route to any destination in the world served by American flag lines in Holland). Thus the Dutch subscribed to the "Five Freedoms" drafted (but not adopted by all the countries) last year at the Chicago International Civil Aviation Conference (TIME, Dec. 11). Result: American Airlines Overseas, Inc., formerly American Export Airlines, certified to fly to Amsterdam, may begin a survey flight next week...
...silver-haired Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz-who said bluntly last month that sea power won the war against Japan-will appear before the U.S. Congress. With him will come Fleet Admirals King and Leahy, Admirals Spruance, Halsey, Turner and Kinkaid, Marine General Alexander A. Vandegrift and Lieut. Generals Holland M. Smith and Roy S. Geiger-a total of 41 stars. And late in October the Navy will stage a full-dress fleet review in New York Harbor, with Harry Truman in the reviewing stand...
Foreign traders were cheered by two bits of news last week : 1 ) they can resume private trade with France; 2) the first shipment of tulip bulbs (8,000 cases) from Holland since war began was on the high seas en route...
...Copenhagen, the Danish Social Democrats' first postliberation congress drew socialist premiers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, socialist representatives from Belgium, Holland, France. Professor Laski, who has been skimming, swallow-like, from one European socialist conference to another, was also irresistibly attracted...