Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Committee announced the award of a major H in Minor Colors to Captain Ace Cordingley and Bob Graves of the golf team, Norman Blotner, Jim Doughty, Ben Ferris, Captain Gordy Halstead, Dick Lewis, Ben Wilcox, and Holland Willard of the lacrosse team, Warwick Stabler of the polo team, and Captain Dave Burt, Langdon Gilkey, Chester Legg, Jack Palfrey, and Jack Stewart of the tennis team, all of whom have played on their respective Varsity teams for three years...
Neutral correspondents, going from Berlin to see what Holland looked like after the Blitzkrieg, doubted Nazi claims that their war had taken but 300 Dutch civilian lives. In Rotterdam alone, whose marshy base allowed few underground shelters, uncounted thousands were crushed under heaps of bricks and stones. A deadly air bombing, ordered by the Germans when a Dutch commander withheld his surrender a few minutes beyond the ultimatum hour, smashed a square mile of commercial Rotterdam-according to the story in seven-and-a-half minutes. The Stadhuis (Town Hall), the new Beurs (Stock Exchange), the Post Office, the biggest...
Flushing, the best coastal harbor, and Den Helder, Holland's chief naval base, were heavily bombed, and even the ancient harbor of Stavoren on the Zuider Zee was shelled. Elsewhere, except in key defense towns like Breda, Tilburg and Maastricht, physical damage had not been great. For the rest, most of the great cities surrendered too quickly to be bombed...
Never, said visiting reporters returning to Berlin, had they seen grass greener, clouds lovelier, May's tulips more glorious, than in Holland last week. But they could not miss a note of grimness either. Determined Protestants, the Dutch taught all Europe 350 years ago that foreign domination could be resisted and overthrown. For them a Seyss-Inquart is another Duke of Alba...
Seven PK men were killed last fall in the German invasion of Poland. A few days before Nazi troops swept into Belgium and Holland, the Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau, Germany's semi-official news agency, announced that 23 PK reporters had died in action during the war-presumably 16 had been killed in Norway...