Word: hollander
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...countryside that, to drive through, seems to glow with prosperity. Yet Premier Laniel's government faces a deficit of more than 600 billion francs-$1.7 billion. France owes her European neighbors $824 million; her reserves of gold and foreign currency are down to $613 million-less than tiny Holland's. Things got so bad that in April and May the U.S. put up an extra $89 million to pay off French I.O.U.s to the European Payments Union...
...After that, London's messages over the ten lines then leading to Giskes' office were uniformly dull. Giskes ended the tragic farce with a final message for the section chiefs he had fooled: "We understand that you have been endeavoring for some time to do business in Holland without our assistance. We regret this the more since we have acted for so long as your sole representatives in this country, to our mutual satisfaction . . . Should you be thinking of paying us a visit on the Continent ... we shall give your emissaries the same attention as we have hitherto...
Benelux's international trade is now the biggest on the Continent, though its population (20 million) is smaller than France. Italy or West Germany. Yet there is friction. Postwar politics complicated the unity: Holland lost her colonial empire in Indonesia, Belgium grew rich on hers; the population of Holland increased rapidly, that of Belgium remained fairly static; Holland's constitutional monarchy remained steady, Belgium was uncertain about her King; the Dutch worked for low wages, the Belgians demanded high wages. When cheap Dutch goods flooded the Belgian market, Belgian industrialists complained. Full economic union, due to take place...
...invalid on the ground that it violated the Tenth Amendment ("The powers not delegated ... are reserved . . ."), the U.S. and Canada agreed by treaty to protect birds that flew between the two countries. Then Congress passed a law similar to the 1913 law. In 1920, in the famous Missouri v. Holland decision, the Supreme Court upheld the statute, ruling in effect that the Federal Government can derive from treaties legislative powers not specifically granted by the Constitution...
...Deliberate Step. Advocates of the Bricker Resolution argue that such broad interpretations of the treaty power as Missouri v. Holland go beyond what the Constitution's authors intended-and can do untold damage in fields far more important than bird legislation. But history indicates that the authors of the Constitution knew what they were doing and had good reasons for doing it. The Articles of Confederation had foundered largely because the national government had no power to make the states observe treaties. The 1783 peace treaty with Great Britain provided that property rights of Britons and loyalists would...