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...Maryland and not much more populous than New York City. Belgium nonetheless has been more like two nations than one since Dutch rule ended and independence was achieved in 1830. In the north are the farm lands of Flanders, inhabited by a conservative, Catholic people with deep roots in Holland; in the south the spiritedly liberal, anticlerical Walloons occupy what once was the seat of France's Carolingian monarchy. Richer and better educated, the Walloons for a century dominated the country; so seared with bitterness were the Flemings at their second-rate position that many openly collaborated with...
...ELMER J. HOLLAND House of Representatives Washington...
...many Jews go quietly to their deaths when they had a good chance of resisting? Fiction, rather than scholarship, has supplied the shrewder answers. Perhaps the profoundest explanation to date comes from the pen of a Jewish writer driven from Germany in 1936 and now living in Holland. Hans Keilson's novel subtly and eloquently probes the ambivalent relation of victim with aggressor...
Keilson's novel is, at least in part, autobiographical. Like his hero, Keilson joined the Resistance after years of anguish, helped Jews and downed pilots escape from occupied Holland. In 1942 he wrote the first 40 pages of The Death of the Adversary, buried them in his garden for the duration of the war. "If ever I came out of this war alive," he vowed, "I knew I was going to be a psychiatrist." Today he is a practicing psychoanalyst in Amsterdam and writes poetry and fiction on the side. "Everybody writes novels about love and/or sex," he says...
That's the proof of our market." Men Without Women. Scholarly as it generally is, Atlas is not above playing up to American self-consciousness with such cover enticements as "How They See Us in Japan, Barbados, Peru, Switzerland, Holland." Its range of articles is infinite -from a Quadrant magazine discussion of "Men Without Women in Australia" (by an agonized Czech who lives in Sydney) to a Russian general's treatise on the probable effects of thermonuclear war, reprinted from a Soviet scientific journal. Each issue carries a full bouquet of literary pieces and book reviews, dominated...