Word: hoorn
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Dates: during 1948-1948
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...traveler who went to Hoorn on the Zuider Zee was face to face with a warning. Once one of the country's great trading centers, Hoorn's crabbed brown houses now totter over narrow, idle streets. On the silent waterfront stands the old East India warehouse, once filled with the sharp scents of the spice trade. Hoorn had been made useless when the North Sea Canal was cut to Amsterdam in 1876. From the town square, an imposing statue looks down at the idle harbor. It is Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Holland's great governor of the East...
...Dutch do not despair, but they know that unless the German and Indonesian trades are restored or replaced, the fate of Hoorn may become the fate of the whole nation. The symbol of Dutch confidence is Juliana...
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