Word: hollander
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From the Ardennes, for example, comes a correspondent who flew home just after Christmas to bring you his detailed understanding of Rundstedt's attack and Eisenhower's counterattack - Jim Shepley. And from Holland comes a TIME reporter who marched with Montgomery's men from D-plus-12 to Eindhoven and Nijmegen and Arnhem - Bill White...
...sturdy Dutch inhabitants of Walcheren Island did not want to leave their flooded homes. The grey sea had snaked through Walcheren's bomb-breached dikes, coiled around hamlets and towns, drowned their handsome black-&-white Friesian Holland cattle. It had also brought salty death to orchards, pastures, grain fields. But most farmers and burghers shook their heads when Allied amphibious ducks chugged up to take them away...
...drafty and the Holland cold bit deep in Hut 2-B. The two frail old ladies from Germany-Internees No. 00001989 and No. 00001990-huddled in their double bed, shivered as they peered through a windowpane at the internment camp where 6,000 German civilians were held...
Boots and Massage. In contrast to U.S forces, the British have no trench-foot problem, even though they have been actually wading through Holland. Their stout workmen-type boots and gum boots have turned out to be drier than anything the U.S. has produced. But the most important factor is that British soldiers are required to keep their boots waxed, to massage their feet with oil and change frequently to dry socks...
Born of hope in oppression, grown to greatness in suffering, the Christian Church found new strength and new unity in its new ordeal. In Holland, where Catholics and Protestants had been at odds since the Reformation, old differences were forgotten in a common defiance of the Nazis, a common defense of the Jews. The Church in occupied Europe has taken a new lease on life because it has fought not only for its own preservation but for all freedom. Churches grown listless and smug under state support turned suddenly about in the state's default and themselves assumed...