Word: hollander
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Long expected by the staff, the demise of the Ivy League daily was planned so that the students would still be able to get official news, Chairman Eugene Holland, Jr., and Managing Editors J. Van Ness Phillip, Jr. and Benjamin H. Walker said in a joint announcement in the paper's final issue...
...After Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France, including Paris, had been conquered, certain important civic and business leaders in this country came to see me to ask that I talk to certain very important people who had come from Europe authorized to speak for some of the highest Nazi and military officials. I looked them up and found these same representatives came with certain credentials that were unquestionably bona fide, vouched for by some of the finest banking facilities in this country...
Prince Bernhard had warned the people of Holland against any celebrations, for fear of reprisals, but on the six islands of The Netherlands West Indies, church bells pealed, sirens blew, and there was dancing in the streets and singing in the bars. In Ottawa, in a hospital suite declared Dutch territory for the day, to Crown Princess Juliana had been born a 7 lb. 12 oz. daughter, her third. Day after birth the baby was placed on a lace-covered cushion, ceremoniously presented by her father to the registrar, who presently set down her name: Margriet Francisco-Margriet for "daisy...
...Java jungles Dutch guerrillas waited last week for the news. In London Queen Wilhelmina and ministers of The Netherlands Government in Exile fidgeted. In Occupied Holland people kept watch in doorways while inside their homes forbidden radio sets were tuned to London. In "a little bit of Holland" in far-off Canada, The Netherlands' Crown Princess Juliana would give birth to her third child...
Extraterritorial Gladness. Sensible, blue-eyed, democratic Princess Juliana escaped from Holland in 1940 in a British destroyer and has been living quietly in Ottawa with Princesses Beatrix, who will be 5 next week, and Irene, 3. Her speed-loving, 31-year-old, German-born husband Prince Bernhard, an air commodore in the R.A.F., visited her briefly last spring. He flew back again last week. Said he: "I'll be glad if it's a boy, but I'll be very happy if it's a girl...