Word: hollander
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...prelate. In London, speaking to a gathering of Canadian servicemen, he had said: "This war is a fight to the bitter end for the vindication of human rights and the preservation of Christian civilization. That conviction has increased by what I have seen in Italy, in Belgium and in Holland of Nazi barbarism, and by the tales I have heard from unimpeachable witnesses-tales that shock and anger. . . . We are deeply grateful to you for having joined with our other Allies in waging a war overseas...
Near Vught, in liberated Holland, New York Timesman James MacDonald inspected a Nazi death camp. Like Maidenek and Tremblinka in Poland, it had electrified barbed wire, lime pits, gallows, suffocation cells, dissection tables, crematories...
...meanest thing the Germans did in Holland is known at Maastricht as 'the rape of the ants.' . . . Even quisling Hollanders resented the theft of the greatest collection of ants in the world...
...Europe] as a buttress to the strengthened general world structure. ... It gives us perhaps more authority with other great powers if we speak for the Commonwealth and for our near neighbors in western Europe" (TIME, Oct. 9). In other words, with the nations of the British Commonwealth and France, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, perhaps Norway and Denmark, girded round her, Britain would be a formidable Continental power...
...benefits of such a west European power bloc were chiefly political, but there were others: 1) Belgium and Holland have planned a trade agreement which is virtually a customs union, specifically designed with collaboration of France and Britain in mind; 2) Belgium hopes to coordinate her military policy with Britain's, pool her Air Force with the R.A.F...