Word: jonkheer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week 69-year-old Jonkheer Dirk Jan de Geer, leader of The Netherlands' Christian Historical Party, talked like a Dutch uncle to his parliamentary colleagues. They had just turned in a vote of no confidence in old Dr. Hendrikus Colijn, thereby throwing out a Ministry that had lasted two days. Basic issue was unemployment relief: Catholics and Socialists wanted to know why, if the Government could spend $165,000,000 on three new cruisers, it could not spend $17,000,000 on Holland's 350,000 unemployed...
Thus The Netherlands-which has $1,000,000,000 invested in the U. S., second only to Great Britain-became fourth biggest U. S. customer (after Great Britain, Canada, Japan). Instrumental in arranging the trade pact was a close-cropped Knight of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer Pieter Jacob Six, owner of the world's greatest collection of Rembrandts, four of them portraits of members of his own family. Jonkheer Six likes to point out that both the U. S. and Holland are creditor nations, that their trade needs complement each other. Last January he and Dr. E. H. von Baumhauer...
...Died, Jonkheer Dr. C. J. M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck, 62, president of the Tweede Kamer, lower house of The Netherlands Parliament, thrice Premier; at Vorden, in the Province of Gelderland. Reproached in 1919 for affording ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II & son refuge in the country, he blurted: "To put it bluntly, these gentlemen fell like a brick on our heads. How could we act otherwise than we have done...
...present Governor of Netherlands Indies, Jonkheer Bonifacius de Jonge, also knew Mr. Baldwin during ten years in London where the Governor was a high official of Royal Dutch Shell. Too hopeful, perhaps, Dutchmen who fear Japan and know that Britain shares their fear now speak of "our white front" in the Far East, something as intangible as the Anglo-French entente before the World War and yet, perhaps, something equally decisive...
...Wearing a pea-green uniform, many medals and a laced hat Jonkheer H. M. van Haersma de With, new Minister from the Netherlands, arrived at the White House, formally presented his credentials, left with a beaming smile...