Word: hollande
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...deaths anticipated if the fighting had gone on. When it stopped, the Dutch, who had given up the northeast half of their country with little resistance and retired in good order from their first line of defense along the Ijssel River, still held their Grebbe Line (second defense) and Holland Water Lines (third). They had mopped up most of the parachutists in and around Amsterdam. They still had The Hague, Leiden, Utrecht, Den Helder. They still held, with British and French, the island province of Zeeland in the rivers' mouths. But further resistance did indeed seem hopeless. Whole towns...
...preparing to evacuate, first to the French spa of Vichy, then if necessary to the European Clipper terminus, Lisbon. Bustling but dignified League Secretary General Joseph Avenol, a Frenchman, had already sent the League's more important documents ahead to France. "We are so disappointed that Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium failed to appeal to the League," commented a typical Secretariat bigwig. "The practical results might not have been great, but the appeals would at any rate have been on the League's records...
...Roberto Farinacci, onetime Party secretary and Italy's No. 1 Jew-baiter, bitterly attacked the Vatican press. Cried Farinacci in his Cremona Regime Fasdsta: "Since September . . . Osservatore and the Holy See have had a common cause with the Allies." Last fortnight, when German troops suddenly moved into Holland and Belgium, Pope Pius XII sent messages of sympathy to Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, King Leopold of the Belgians; and Osservatore Romano, in a burst of indignation, let itself go again. That day Editor Dalla Torre printed 150,000 copies, speeded up the Vatican's little press until...
...Netherlands, had transacted the rich business of her vast empire. But bare as a tooth socket was many a captured vault and till. For months their contents had been quietly moving to safer places and in the few hours while her Army threw itself before the Nazi drive. Holland's great commercial machine completed the fastest and biggest business evacuation in world military history...
Driving in with the troops, Nazi finance officers found furniture, littered paper, empty safes, little more. Gone was most of Holland's gold (some $690,000,000) into hiding in the U. S. and Britain. Gone was the bulk of her vast holding of international securities ($1,076,000,000 in the U. S. alone); the last bundle of engraved paper to be rescued was lugged from Amsterdam by a British officer who pushed off from Ijmuiden to England in a commandeered motor boat after Amsterdam had fallen. Gone was her stock of diamonds: the last store, worth several...