Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that arc with a compass. It begins in the Scottish Lowland and ends in Upper Silesia. On it or close to it are strewn the maroon areas of mining districts and the red areas of manufacturing-the English Midlands, South Wales, northern France, Belgium's Sambre-Meuse Valley, Holland's Limburg, the Saar, the Ruhr, middle Germany. Lesser mining and manufacturing areas are scattered in other quarters of Europe but neither in area nor in productive capacity are they of comparable significance...
Power and the Land (RKO Radio). Dutch-born Joris Ivens (pronounced eevuns) is a sturdy pioneer in the neglected art of documentary films. Since 1928 he has been lugging his camera far & wide, cranking away on scenes of commercial fishing in Holland (The Breakers), mining in Belgium (Borinage), fighting in Spain and China (Spanish Earth, The 400,000,000). Trying to sell his product in competition with the fast freight from Hollywood has taught Ivens he must unwind his factual, sometimes statistical, accounts without making his reel resemble a Fitz-Patrick Travelogue or a photostatic copy of a balance sheet...
...when the U. S. condemned the seizure of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France, the attack on Finland, the absorption of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania and Rumania. So it was when Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned Japan, when Holland and France fell, and when The Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China were endangered, that the U. S. would frown upon any change in the status quo in the Pacific...
There is no Zola to describe The Debacle of 1940. But the eyewitness reports have already begun. Four important books now report how Norway was seized, why Holland fell, why France folded. One is by a Norwegian (Carl J. Hambro). Two are by Frenchmen (Andr Maurois, André Simone). One is by a U. S. woman (Clare Boothe...
...Authoress Boothe went to Holland a few days before the Nazis did. Herr Snouck Hurgronje told her the Germans were expected: "The same sources have informed our Government so which informed it five days before the German invasion of Norway." They had not warned the British and French. "Certainly not. . . . They're not our allies." He added: "It's just another agony to fear what cannot be prevented or conquered." Nazi warplanes caught up with Miss Boothe in Brussels; she fled to Paris. It was Maytime. "Now at the Gare du Nord and the Gard...