Word: jonkheer
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...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...
...Netherlands did not arrest its black-shirted onetime waterworks engineer, Anton Adrian Missert (TIME, April 22), but old Dutch General Jonkheer W. Roell, a retired fire-eater who once commanded the Army, growled that shootin' was too good for traitors. He would hang 'em. The Netherlands declared a state of siege, began raiding Dutch Nazis' homes for arms and uniforms...
...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...