Word: jonkheer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they had better protest at the top of their lungs against this new invasion of their rights. This both countries did and in The Netherlands' case the protest conveyed as much real as dictated anguish, for one Hollander in three derives his livelihood from German trade. Minister Jonkheer Edgar Michïels van Verduyen, for the Dutch, was soon followed to the British Foreign Office by Minister Baron Emile Ernest de Cartier de Marchienne for the Belgians. Denmark protested, Sweden protested, Norway protested-but all of them less vigorously than the two Nazi-prodded neutrals, and Sweden simultaneously...
...Volksraad, a legislative assembly composed half of natives and subjects of foreign origin and half of Hollanders. But the Volksraad has exceedingly limited powers. Only recently it acquired the right to initiate legislation. The real power rests in a tropical palace at Buitenzorg, outside Batavia, where lives His Excellency Jonkheer A.W.L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, the Governor General. Aside from being able to tell such high-sounding potentates as the Sultan of Solo or the Sultan of Jokyakarta how to run their States, he can also veto any measure that a rebellious Volksraad might pass. Moreover, he himself can "pass...
...Into Jonkheer de Geer's Cabinet went the mistake-makers, representatives of parties holding 73 of the Lower Chamber's 100 seats. Only die-hard Tories, Communists and Nazis were left out. There were two members of the Christian Historical Party, two Catholics, two Socialists, four independents. Bald, scholarly Johan Willem Albarda, head of the Socialist Party in the Lower Chamber for 14 years, became Minister of Public Works, thus leading the Socialists into a Netherlands Cabinet for the first time despite that party's regular claim to 20% of the country's vote...
Catholics and Socialists could combine to put conservative Dr. Colijn out, but neither was strong enough to put anyone else in. Traditional parliamentary behavior for such conservatives as Jonkheer de Geer would have been to watch Catholic and Socialist leaders flounder through the attempt, gleefully call attention to each failure, assuming that the increasing confusion would in the long run mean more votes for the Christian Historical Party. Instead, Jonkheer de Geer, who voted against the motion of no confidence, was asked by Queen Wilhelmina to form a Cabinet. Thin, mustached, respected, severe, a shade less conservative than Dr. Colijn...
...They were alarmed at the calamities mounting up for The Netherlands' empire-four Cabinet crises in three months, a threat to the rich Netherlands Indies with every increase of Japanese influence in Asia, pressure from Germany, a mounting financial panic at home. Two days after they took office Jonkheer de Geer's gravity was justified. The Netherlands' leading investment banking house closed its doors...