Word: jonkheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
...defense, returned to his old post at the head of British forces in India and Burma. The defense of Java, still with some Allied aid, was now where Dutchmen all along had thought it ought to be: in the hands of a Dutchman, the Indies Governor General Jonkheer Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer...
...Netherlands East Indies, so far unattacked, declared war in the knowledge that they would be attacked sooner or later. Said Governor General Jonkheer A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer: "These attacks almost make one think of insanity...
...Died. Jonkheer Hugo Loudon, 81, board chairman of the great Royal Dutch Oil Co.; in Wassenaar, German-occupied Netherlands. He remained in The Netherlands when the Germans invaded Holland, though the seat of his company was transferred to Curagao...
Head of the Japanese mission was Minister of Commerce & Industry Ichizo Kobayashi. The wily Japanese hoped to force the Dutch to pick as chief negotiator someone equal in rank to a Cabinet Minister, i.e., Governor General Jonkheer A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, who is not the tough customer Hubertus van Mook is. The Dutch did no such thing. Twelve days after the Japanese delegation arrived, while small Minister Kobayashi was being escorted around by a guard of honor picked for stature and bulk, Queen Wilhelmina cabled Batavia the appointment of Van Mook as Cabinet...