Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans even less than in World War I. Said he on arriving: "The ideas that the old German aristocrats had were not as bad as those of the rogues now in power." Last week, when a show of Raemaekers' drawings, old & new, was opened in Manhattan's Holland House gallery, he said: "People say I hate the Germans. I do not hate the Germans, I know them. You can trust them just so long as there is nothing they can grab from you; so soon as you have something they want and the opportunity comes for them, then...
Added the Star-Times in a soberer vein: "Unneutral? Of course it is unneutral, in a world where neutrality has become Hitler's jest and Holland's grave. . . . Loud will be the laughter of Göring and Goebbels . . . when they read . . . the Post-Dispatch's editorial, translated, as it will be, in the Völkulcher Beobachter. . . . Roosevelt . . . acted in an hour of danger. . . . It was not an act of war, but an act to keep war away from America, now and forever...
MAIGRET ABROAD-Georges Sime-non-Harcourf, Brace ($2). In Holland, the imperturbable Inspector Maigret deals with a crime of passion: the popping off of philandering Popinga. Maigret makes his pick and hands the case to Detective Pijpekamp for the kill. Proceeding then to Belgium, Maigret solves a murder at the Gai-Moulin in Liege. Principal actors are Adele, a danseuse, and two ne'er-do-well youths, always broke...
This set the tone for student anti-war agitation up until the invasion of Holland, and Belgium, at which time, although no formal poll of undergraduate sentiment was taken, the attitude of the undergraduates toward war could be summed up as follows: We will not fight just to preserve and restore democracy in Europe, and we see no direct threat to America in the present war--therefore we're against any involvement...
...first argument was generally rejected by undergraduates, but as the German armies swept through Holland and Belgium, the second argument--that America was threatened with direct German pressure--began to take effect, and it is probable that a considerable swing in the direction of preparedness had occurred in undergraduate opinion by June...