Word: hollander
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...British correspondents riding out of Minsk in jeeps saw mounted guerrillas with saddles made in Germany. Holland and Hungary...
State of Siege. In the future of The Netherlands, the underground expects to play a powerful part, and exiled Queen Wilhelmina has already recognized its strength. When she and her Prime Minister, gnomish, pink-&-white Dr. Pieter S. Gerbrandy, return to Holland, they will carry a three-stage plan: 1) underground leaders will be given places in the Government immediately; 2) the country will be kept in a state of siege until the Germans and their Dutch collaborators are purged, the war with Japan finished; 3) when conditions permit, in the Queen's and Cabinet's view...
Willem Mengelberg, famed Dutch conductor and onetime (1922-30) chief of the New York Philharmonic, whose guest appearances with German symphony orchestras continued comfortably after Nazi occupation of Holland...
Professor Sakimura quietly sent his wife to her parents in Holland. Quietly he boarded a plane for Sweden. In Stockholm he registered as a political refugee, accepted enough money from the Swedish Academic Political Refugee Committee for food, lodging, cigarets, paper and ink. He turned to the socialistic beliefs of his youth, began to write a book about Japanese cartels, mulled over plans for Japan's future...
...turnabout. Stung into face-saving fury, Japanese and Nazi agents insulted, browbeat, threatened him. They said that 25 of the professor's friends had been seized in Germany as hostages for his return. They brought ten friends to Stockholm to make personal appeals. They arrested his wife in Holland, showed him a letter from her urging his return lest she suffer Gestapo tortures...