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Mendèes' allies were furious. "Nine-tenths unacceptable," snapped Dutch Foreign Minister Johan Willem Beyen. Cracked the Düsseldorfer Nachrichten: "The only regulation really missing is one requiring German soldiers to turn in their rifles every evening...
...like this and I am a goner), I was particularly delighted to see that my countrymen licked the Russians in the Nordic winter sports [TIME, March i]; but please do not call the Finnish national anthem "Our Lord" in English. Maamme means "Our Country," and is a translation from Johan Ludvig Runeberg's poem Vart Land . . . But I am too delighted to kick about it, and "Our Lord" may be just as good as Maamme when it comes to sing for the Slobos (Finnish slang word for the Russians), and may have a better influence...
...17th century Senate building in The Hague, Dutch Foreign Minister Johan Beyen last week asked his country's elder statesmen to hand over control of The Netherlands' proud little army and 20,000-man air force to a supranational authority that does not yet exist. The European Army (EDC) has never raised cheers in Holland, for it will speed the rearmament of Germany, a nation that overran the Dutch only 13 years ago. The Dutch fear current French weakness as well as future German strength. But the Dutch, a hardheaded people, know no better alternative to what their...
...first time Dr. Johan Hendrik Botha saw green-eyed blonde Mavis, she was clad in rags, covered with veld sores and standing barefooted on the cow-dung floor of a filthy Zulu kraal. Horrified, the doctor, who treats thousands of Zulus in the lonely hills of northern Natal, decided instantly that six-year-old Mavis was a white child; he took her home. Young Mrs. Botha gave Mavis a good bath, tied her hair in gay ribbons, gave her her first doll, her first shoes and set her at a table to learn to eat with knife & fork...
...Johan H. Andreson, Jr., Sinedbraaten, Skoyen, Oslo, Norway; atrick T. Colt, Newtown, Conn.; Ernest B. Dane, 3rd, Middletown, Conn.; Duncan N. Dickson, Utica, N. Y.; Harrison Gardner, Jr., Wenham, Mass.; Christopher c. Ingraham, Providence, R. I.; Stephen L. Reynolds Weston, Mass.; Hans C. Vitzthum, San Diego, Cal.; Brayton F. Wilson, Cambridge, Mass.; Roger F. Langley, Jr., Baue, Mass...