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...Netherlands too there was distress. Citizens were rationed to 1,040 calories of food daily, less than half enough. Schools were closed. Hospitals were critically short of personnel and medicines. To Queen Wilhelmina's Government in London a Dutch underground leader reported: Communism had gained no converts in Holland but old conservative parties were being radicalized. From Dutchmen in Holland, Dutchmen in exile did not know what to expect...
...follow her example. The hardheaded Dutch next door will have none of it. Said one top Dutch moneyman: "The plan is psychologically dangerous; because you can't force people into virtue. It's technically too difficult to administer." Dr. Johan Beyen, Dutch delegate to Bretton Woods, said Holland plans an orthodox savings drive to sop up inflationary cash, stringent wage & price controls and a retroactive 100% excess-profits tax to grab wartime profits. But most of all Holland stresses what other Governments have ignored-heavy taxes, to bring its budget under control, the step which all European countries...
Where from? The alert defenders of southern England quickly found out. The Germans were mounting the robots pickaback on old Heinkels and other obsolete bombers, whose pilots took off from bases in north Holland and Germany, launched the robots at sea, at night. British night fighters, guided from radar stations on the ground, went to work against both bombers and robots, and not many of the missiles got through. It was a feeble echo of last summer's terror; but last week the attacks increased and the flow of evacuees back to London slowed down...
...Taylor report said little about Belgium and Holland. "As for Germany itself," it declared, "careful . . . artillery fire and precision bombing to protect art . . . will be followed...
...Asia's demand may skyrocket within a few years to 20 million sets"). "The European industry," he continued, "will be unable to cover this demand. English factories will be busy filling home orders; the German industry will be badly wrecked by air raids; and the biggest European exporter, Holland's Philips' works in Eindhoven, must be rebuilt. France and Italy [will be out of] international competition for some time to come. Hungary's production capacity is a maximum of 50,000 sets annually. Switzerland and Sweden are both producing good-quality sets and might export...