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...five months, Prime Minister Sidney G. Holland, leader of the New Zealand National (Conservative) Party, bitterly fought the Communist-led Waterside Workers Union, whose repeated strikes tied up the country's vital export trade. Invoking wartime emergency regulations, Holland declared the union illegal, sponsored a rival union, on rare occasions denied the dockers the right of assembly, free speech or publication. When the striking dockers finally gave in (TIME, July 16), Holland decided that New Zealand should have an opportunity to say it approved of his tough methods. He called for a general election...
Golfer de Wit also noticed some other differences in the way the game is played at home and abroad. "The grass was higher, much thicker than it is in Holland. I found you have to hit the ball over there. Over here we stroke the ball and the ball rolls. Here we concentrate on teaching people how to swing. In America they concentrate on the hitting. I saw one guy go almost off his feet. If we see somebody do that here...
Concluded De Wit: "It's a lucky thing I didn't go to Chicago expecting to win. If American pros come here to Holland to play, I think they'll miss the noise. They'll be able to concentrate more, but they'll lose their fighting spirit...
...Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; of a heart ailment; in Hechingen, southwest Germany. During World War I, as commander of the Reich's Fifth Army, he took a decisive beating from Marshal Pétain at Verdun, fled to ignominious exile in Holland. In 1923, he returned to Germany, hoping to succeed his deposed father, instead bowed to Hitler, joined the Nazis. Near the end of World War II, the French found Wilhelm hiding in Austria and contemptuously sent him back to his Hechingen chalet...
Commenting on his paper, Professor L. J. van Holk of the University of Leyden, Holland, pointed out that the growth of empiricism coincided with the eighteenth century enlightenment and the rise of liberalism...