Word: hollande
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...Dutch and Belgian press to keep cool heads. But all Belgians and Dutchmen had to do to learn the newest sensation of the moment was to turn on British and French radios. In the U. S. eight-column streamers shouted "GUNS ROAR ON DUTCH-NAZI BORDER," "ULTIMATUM TO HOLLAND REPORT." Piqued, the Dutch Government threatened to expel foreign newsmen who sensationalized...
...ends: "I am sorry at the honorable lady member's attitude, and appeal that no other member of this House give similar utterances. It is fortunate she is living in a country where tolerance is enjoyed. I doubt if she would be allowed such latitude in her native Holland. If such words are again uttered, I shall have to advise Ottawa for action under the Canada War Measures...
...month, tourists scurried away from the Isles of Rest. On the Furness Monarch of Bermuda's, last trip-the ship was painted gloomy grey-she was loaded to the jack-stays with tourists hurrying home. Last week Bermudians were momentarily bucked to hear that the Holland-American luxury liner Nieuw Amsterdam (capacity 1,000) had taken over the suspended Furness, Withy & Co. contract, and was sailing from Manhattan. They were let down again when they heard that the passenger list numbered 139, mostly natives returning to the storm-vexed, war-vexed Bermoothes...
...Cyril Gerard Holland, vicar of Ewell, Surrey, deplored such chauvinist talk. Said he: "Let us at least leave God as a neutral." In John Bull, Rev. William McCormick, popularly known as "Pat" McCormick, of St. Martins-in-the-Fields, hazarded that "God must hate it all ... the evil behind this use of force, the misery and suffering. . . . His is the hardest part. He's in the midst of all the suffering because . . . Germans and Allies alike . . . we're all his children...
...member of what a New York Times headline described as a POLYGLOT LOAD which reached Manhattan on the Holland-America liner Pennland last week was a certain Miss Joy Allen Duncan, 19, tall, hazel-eyed Virginian, chatty as a debutante about one of the most harrowing civilian experiences the war at sea has turned...