Word: hollander
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...Communists play the game, there is no give and take. With a state monopoly on all imports and exports in their own countries, they bar the door against any Western price competition in Iron Curtain ports. The merchant fleets of West Germany, Britain, France, Belgium and Holland are feeling the pinch, and fear that it can only get worse. The Poles and East Germans have modern fleets totaling more than 300 ships, and they plan to double that number by 1970. The Soviet Union has 1,280 vessels, and it, too, is aiming at twice as many...
...formal introduction to the Dutch people in a nationwide television interview, Carlos said that he was "happy to be in Holland because I love Irene." How happy the Dutch were remained uncertain; many were still not reconciled to the idea of affiliation of the House of Orange with Spain, the country The Netherlands traditionally detests...
...none too happy at the prospect of installing the present Spanish Pretender, Don Juan, went out of his way to welcome Carlos back to Madrid. The threat of competition from the Carlists would give Franco a useful lever to make disdainful Don Juan more receptive to his wishes. In Holland, all this maneuvering only served to increase the fear that Princess Irene and the whole House of Orange might one day become a tool in a Spanish struggle for power...
Walter J. Kaiser, assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature, will study the development of certain themes in Renaissance thought and literature while travelling in Italy. Heiko A. Oberman, professor of Church History, will go to Holland, where he will work on a book about the medieval source of Reformation thought...
First Hint. The engagement, to one of Spain's grandest grandees, might logically have mollified a mother with four unmarried daughters. Not Irene's mother. Queen Juliana is the eight-time great-granddaughter of William the Silent, a Calvinist princeling who led Protestant Holland in its bitter war of independence against Catholic Spain, until his death at the hand of a Spanish assassin in 1584. William is revered by the Dutch as the Father of the Fatherland, and his House of Orange has occupied the throne continuously since The Netherlands became a monarchy 150 years ago. To Dutch...