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Sutherland's search began almost five years after his flyer son Wilfred, 25, shot down over Holland, was reported killed in action. During a London visit, on Easter morning 1948, Sutherland left his hotel room and strolled across the street to King's Cross, because "something seemed to draw me there." Out of nowhere, he says, Wilfred appeared; the two men stared at each other. "He didn't say anything, but I knew he was thinking, 'I've seen your face before.' " Then Wilfred -or the man Sutherland believed to be Wilfred - was swallowed...
Unable to get foreign currency to buy raw materials, factories cut production to 30% of capacity. The big Philips electric-bulb plant at Natanya was dismantled and its equipment shipped back to Holland. The government, which has already forced its citizens to lend it 10% of their currency holdings and bank deposits, last week imposed a new forced loan on property owners. Israel's first devaluation had come when pockets were full and shop windows empty. Now, at the second devaluation, pockets are empty and shopwindows are full-full of tins of canned tomatoes and figs, "frustrated exports" waiting...
...voice won her a $3,000 John Hay Whitney fellowship, and she went for advanced study in Paris. Then came a first prize in Geneva's 1951 International Music Competition (other noted winners: the Metropolitan's Nell Rankin and Victoria de los Angeles). Finally, in Holland, she sang the lead in Stravinsky's Nightingale, and the British magazine Opera flatly called her "the outstanding coloratura of her generation...
Actually, such precautions are superfluous. The Supreme Court, in the case of Missouri vs. Holland, indicated it had the right to declare any treaty unconstitutional. While the Court has never found this necessary, the principle of Constitutional supremacy is assured. Also, the right of citizens find protection in Congress' right to legislate the domestic effects of any treaty to death...
...flood, which also crashed into Britain and Belgium, was particularly destructive in Holland, and was called the "worst flood in five centuries...