Word: hollander
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...Present cultural units should be preserved with the utmost care and should have full autonomy in all local affairs. This means that a country such as Switzerland, Holland or Hungary should be preserved intact with its present boundaries, unless the people themselves in compact geographical blocks desire a change. If some country, such as Belgium, is troubled by friction between two sections with different cultural systems, each of these, if it so desires, should be given autonomy. The decision should rest with the individual cultural groups. Autonomy . . . does not mean complete independence. The day for completely independent small political units...
...Political units in the form of large nations, or federations of smaller nations, should coincide as far as possible with natural economic units. This principle is difficult to apply and must frequently be held in abeyance because it conflicts with other principles. For example, Holland normally belongs economically with Germany. The ideal would be that Holland and Germany should each remain perfectly free and completely autonomous in all internal affairs and in many international relations, but that they should form parts of the same economic unit. Cultural conditions, however, including the prejudices of the present war, may make this undesirable...
...gamble might succeed. The Allies could certainly land in France, Belgium or Holland. They might be able to hold a beachhead until they grew strong enough to blast into the formidable German defenses in depth. But it was a terribly long chance...
...After two years of fruitless effort to convert Holland's Germanic adults to Naziism, both German and Dutch Nazis two months ago launched an energetic campaign to win Hollanders through their children, to whose natural barbarism the color and mumbo jumbo of Naziism might appeal. "Führer" Anton Adrian Mussert's Dutch imitation of Hitler's Youth Movement, Nationale Jeugdstorm, has doubled the number of its demonstrations and marches, has opened new offices all over Holland to enlist recruits. To show off the recruits, Sunday-schoolish Hoofdstormer (Youth Movement chief) van Geelkerken last week planned...
...natural laws and the conditions of its environment. Healthiest and most perfectly formed cities, Saarinen believes, were those of the Middle Ages, when the relative simplicity of social life made it possible for architects to build them as complete units. The medieval town, like France's Carcassonne and Holland's Naarden (see cut), resembled the organic cell of animal and plant life, its spired cathedral forming a spiritual nucleus for its web of radiating, labyrinthine streets, its outer battlements and surrounding "greenbelt" of farms and forests providing a protective cellular wall...