Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...number of G.I. personnel in France, Belgium and Holland decreased in response to demands to "bring the boys home," P.W.s have become indispensable. Ninety percent of the personnel handling, repairing, conserving and hauling the hundreds of million dollars' worth of U.S. surplus material are now German P.W.s. Through error, the names of P.W.s even sneaked into the recent telephone directory of Western Base Section Headquarters in Paris. The directory was quickly withdrawn and purged...
Sampson P. Holland...
...French, Italian, Austrian and Belgian Socialists had a different position. They foresaw an eventual break with the Communists, but thought the present moment was "premature." Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland strung along with the British Labor Party, as they usually do. The Argentine delegate, Nicolás Repetto, hoped a Socialist International might help him fight Perón. A Canadian delegate favored an anti-Communist Socialist International, but he had a worry of his own: "Any future war will be between America and Russia-and we Canadians are between. We will get the atom bombs that miss...
...Holland's biggest political question was: Would the Catholics now join the Party of Labor (which had explicitly renounced Marxism) in a coalition government to continue the Schermerhorn government's state planning in Holland, or would they form a government with the remnants of the Protestant parties...
...Bruin, writing from Holland, stressed that the clothing situation in Europe is still far from solved despite the recent UNRRA collections in the United States. "It will take us many months, if not years," she said, "before we have helped all the villages which the Germans pillaged...