Word: hollanders
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...formal introduction to the Dutch people in a nationwide television interview, Carlos said that he was "happy to be in Holland because I love Irene." How happy the Dutch were remained uncertain; many were still not reconciled to the idea of affiliation of the House of Orange with Spain, the country The Netherlands traditionally detests...
Walter J. Kaiser, assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature, will study the development of certain themes in Renaissance thought and literature while travelling in Italy. Heiko A. Oberman, professor of Church History, will go to Holland, where he will work on a book about the medieval source of Reformation thought...
First Hint. The engagement, to one of Spain's grandest grandees, might logically have mollified a mother with four unmarried daughters. Not Irene's mother. Queen Juliana is the eight-time great-granddaughter of William the Silent, a Calvinist princeling who led Protestant Holland in its bitter war of independence against Catholic Spain, until his death at the hand of a Spanish assassin in 1584. William is revered by the Dutch as the Father of the Fatherland, and his House of Orange has occupied the throne continuously since The Netherlands became a monarchy 150 years ago. To Dutch...
Spain is one of the few places left in the world where celebrities can draw a breath in peace. But there is at least one newshawk among the chickens. Shadowing Holland's visiting Princess Irene, 24, a Madrid photographer followed her to a Roman Catholic church, where he watched her receiving Communion-and stumbled on the best-kept secret of the Dutch House of Orange. Sometime last year "after long and deep thinking," Irene, second in line to the throne, had converted to Catholicism. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, said a hastily prepared royal communique, "fully backed the freedom...
...Matter of Time. Almost half the immigrants-11,000 in the past year-come from Britain, many complaining of the cold weather and unemployment at home; others arrive from Holland, West Germany, Italy, Portugal, Greece and Scandinavia. A second trek to South Africa is under way among whites fleeing African territories being taken over by black nationalists; a bearded Afrikaner who had been farming in Kenya, which won its freedom last month, crossed back into his homeland in his ten-year-old Chevrolet, jumped out, and literally knelt down and kissed the red Transvaal dust. So many whites have migrated...