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...Concitions in Central Europe are deteriorating rapidly. . . . Undoubtedly conditions are better in Holland, Denmark and Belgium, but they are still very difficult in France and are terrible in parts of Germany. Unless some means can be found whereby the New World, and countries that have supplies of food and clothing, can furnish those supplies to the people [who need them], there may be conditions of famine, of strife and of turmoil which will amount to ... revolution throughout Europe. I think I am not wrong...
...number of G.I. personnel in France, Belgium and Holland decreased in response to demands to "bring the boys home," P.W.s have become indispensable. Ninety percent of the personnel handling, repairing, conserving and hauling the hundreds of million dollars' worth of U.S. surplus material are now German P.W.s. Through error, the names of P.W.s even sneaked into the recent telephone directory of Western Base Section Headquarters in Paris. The directory was quickly withdrawn and purged...
Sampson P. Holland...
...French, Italian, Austrian and Belgian Socialists had a different position. They foresaw an eventual break with the Communists, but thought the present moment was "premature." Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland strung along with the British Labor Party, as they usually do. The Argentine delegate, Nicolás Repetto, hoped a Socialist International might help him fight Perón. A Canadian delegate favored an anti-Communist Socialist International, but he had a worry of his own: "Any future war will be between America and Russia-and we Canadians are between. We will get the atom bombs that miss...
...Holland's biggest political question was: Would the Catholics now join the Party of Labor (which had explicitly renounced Marxism) in a coalition government to continue the Schermerhorn government's state planning in Holland, or would they form a government with the remnants of the Protestant parties...