Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London The Netherlands Government in Exile also underwent a political crisis. Pieter S. Gerbrandy, Holland's Premier since 1940, resigned. Promptly Queen Wilhelmina whisked him back to form a "broader" government...
...Belgium, the Resistance and hunger were behind the crisis. In Maastricht, liberated Holland's biggest city, underground fighters (Stoottroepen, meaning shock troops) charged three prominent citizens with collaboration, clapped them into jail. When Interior Minister Jacob Burger protested against indiscriminate purging, the Stoottroepen of both occupied and liberated Holland forced his resignation...
...fight against winter, rain, snow and sniffles. First, Star Betty Field (who replaced Margaret Sullavan in the Manhattan cast last month) came down with flu. Hollywood's Florence Rice took her place. Then Actress Rice began to sniffle. Producer de Liagre raided his Chicago company, had Understudy Nancy Holland rushed by plane to Manhattan. Soon after she arrived, honey-blond, willowy K. T. Stevens, the Chicago lead, was reported sick abed. Sleet and freezing rain grounded Margaret Sullavan, who was trying to fly back from California to help out. Producer de Liagre still had competent actors to read them...
...Castrator" mines planted by the Germans in Belgium and Holland. Small blocks of wood, fitted with a striker pin, hold a single rifle cartridge. When a man walking at normal stride steps on the trigger, the cartridge explodes, drives the slug violently upward...
From the Ardennes, for example, comes a correspondent who flew home just after Christmas to bring you his detailed understanding of Rundstedt's attack and Eisenhower's counterattack - Jim Shepley. And from Holland comes a TIME reporter who marched with Montgomery's men from D-plus-12 to Eindhoven and Nijmegen and Arnhem - Bill White...