Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around the great naval airfield at Surabaya, Java, are set with bamboo stakes, about waist high, their tops whittled razor-sharp. A visiting journalist recently asked what they were for. The commander of the base explained that they were designed as an unpleasant reception for parachutists, and added: "When Holland first fell and we were very excited we put poison on the tips of all these stakes...
Suddenly everything changed. First Finland, then the rest of Scandinavia was blocked off. The price of unbleached sulfite pulp in the U. S. jumped $6.60 a ton. Two months later, with Holland, Belgium and France gone, and Italy in, the U. S. had lost an export market (including Scandinavia) amounting to $568,000,000 in 1939. The stockmarket broke 35 points from May 1 to June 15, lay paralyzed with fear. But the U. S. swung into the greatest production boom in its history...
...these last five months there have been tremendous changes. When last I spoke we had just experienced the terrific shock of the overthrow of France. Hitler seemed irresistible. First Poland had been overwhelmed, then Norway, then Holland, then Belgium. Finally came the destruction in less than a month's fighting of what had been rated as the finest army for its size in Europe, and the disarmament and division of France...
...IRISH MINISTER TO THE U. S. (TIME, DEC. 2). THAT IRISH PORTS WOULD BE USEFUL TO GERMANY IS SELF-EVIDENT TO AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE AND IF MR. BRENNAN SUPPOSES EIRE'S POLICY OF NEUTRALITY WILL PREVENT NAZIS OCCUPYING IT WHEN AND IF POSSIBLE HE HAS QUICKLY FORGOTTEN DENMARK, NORWAY, HOLLAND, BELGIUM. CERTAINLY GERMANY WOULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED IN DEMANDING IRISH PORTS ON GROUND OF USEFULNESS BUT WHEN HAS GERMANY EVER FELT NEED FOR JUSTIFYING HER GRABS EXCEPT WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK? . . . SHE TAKES WHAT SHE WANTS WITH NO INTENTION OF RETURNING THE LOOT IF SHE IS VICTOR WHEN HOSTILITIES CEASE...
...working through the agency of certain enlightened economists. For who can doubt your conclusion that "an American prosperous and busy is an America invincible and free?" By the same reasoning, any prosperous and busy tyranny from ancient Babylon to present day Russia may be termed "invincible and free." Modern Holland was prosperous and busy. She was not invincible, and her prosperity and freedom are lost. Since lent of invincibility and freedom? Edwin L. Popper...