Word: hollande
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Hostile to Russia entering the League were Canada, Belgium. Holland, Jugoslavia and Switzerland. Their leaders continued to bear in mind that Josef Stalin heads the one regime whose members are pledged, through the Third International, to destruction of Capitalist regimes throughout the world. For tactical reasons Dictator Stalin has slowed up for the present the drive of the Third International for "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." He has not abandoned that great aim, pledges and repledges himself to it in addresses to the Russian people. But Britain, France and Italy, intent on nailing down the frontiers of Germany...
...from Sir Henri's home territory. Rapped out Harry Ford Sinclair of Consolidated Oil: "What about Europe putting its own house in order? In one country I visited they were selling gas at ... less than it costs to produce. And if you want to know the country, it was Holland...
...biggest scoop of the War occurred when a German deserter who had escaped into Holland fetched a bulky packet from under his coat and asked Captain Landau : "What is this worth to you?" Meekly the German accepted £100 for the latest edition of the German
Along the Dutch-Belgian frontier the Germans had stretched an electrified barricade patrolled by sentries. Captain Landau in Holland had to work through that deadly fence to rebuild on the other side a British secret service almost from the ground...
...over, Chief Landau hastened from Holland to Belgium, was in time to see the retreat of the German Army. There he met the members of his own little army of Belgian patriots, most of whom he had never seen. A group of Belgian professional men, bankers and the nobility, organized by an engineer and a professor, calling themselves "La Dame Blanche," had been his most valuable assistants. Greeting them was "the most dramatic moment of my life...