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...crack down on the Brandwag rank & file, instead let them quit the organization while the quitting was good. He flew in a loaded bomber to the war zone in the Sudan just to show his people how near it was. This, on top of the smothering of Holland, suggested to Afrikanders that World War II was their...
Equally uncompromising is the attitude of Holland's Calvinists. The Nazi-backed Deutsche Zeitung fur die Niederlanden complains that "The Dutch churches have been veritable centres of opposition to the Reich." At a Protestant meeting in Amsterdam former Cabinet Minister J. R. Slotemaker de Bruine apostrophized the Nazis: "Do not expect us to drive out of public life that which is most holy. Spiritual freedom, freedom of church, school and opinion, lies in our very blood." About a third of The Netherlands' 8,700,000 population are Catholics, an other third strict Calvinists, the rest most ly Calvinists...
Jumping is extremely popular also at the Holland Kelly Farm in Greenfield where the tow is operated by Strand Mikkelson, a former national champion jumper, whose somersaults delight the jumper, whose somersaults delight the onlookers. Both have performed in major sports centers, as have the native troop of professional skiers, Mikkelson, Shul and Pulaski. These men are now teaching two Greenfield girls who, as high school students, were jumping more than 150 feet...
...that Hitler cannot cross the Atlantic and that Europe's wars are not ours. The air is full of suggestions as to what he can't do. Time was when he also couldn't get past the Maginot Line, or through the flooded fields of Holland, or up the steep mountain trails of Norway. Much is made of the fact that he has not crossed the English Channel. He was not there last September, but there are other Septembers. . . . AUBRY MILLER Alhambra, Calif...
Birthdays. William II, onetime German Emperor, his 82nd, in excellent health but still planted at Doom, Holland. Said he: "Old trees cannot be transplanted." Frank Orren Lowden, onetime (1917-21) Governor of Illinois and G. O. Patriarch, his 80th, in Oregon, Ill. Said he: "I think we are becoming altogether too pessimistic. I look forward with faith and hope...