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...once luxurious Hotel des Indes, the Dutch manager and his staff were seized. A Dutchman who tried to haul down an Indonesian flag planted atop the Jacobson van den Berg Trading Co. was arrested on the spot. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines' landing rights were summarily canceled. Some 100 KLM employees and families prepared to depart...
...airlines point to the 1955 agreement with West Germany's reborn Lufthansa, under which the Germans got rich routes to half a dozen cities up and down both U.S. coasts in return for landing and pickup rights at six German cities. They argue that The Netherlands' KLM Royal Dutch Airlines won new routes last April which will give the Dutch $15 of revenue for every $1 the U.S. gets in return. The latest: a route across the U.S. for Australia's Qantas Airlines which will produce at least $4,000,000 annually in return for concessions (including...
...always plays a role. The State Department emphasizes that American airline operations everywhere overseas are almost entirely dependent on the good will of foreign nations, which means that they must be kept reasonably happy. An uproar over routes can arouse surprising bitterness. In the case of Holland's KLM, Queen Juliana herself made an earnest speech for a U.S. route because to the Dutch, like many others, the airline is not merely a business but a national symbol, compensation in part for the vanishing Dutch navy and the lost East Indies...
Arrivals in Prague, capital of Communist Czechoslovakia, via KLM Flight 650 from Mexico City to Montreal, Shannon and Amsterdam: one man, one woman and one boy, bearing brand-new passports and making like brand-new citizens of the Republic of Paraguay. Their credentials...
Quick Comeback. Founded in 1919 by a roughhewn, forceful Dutch flyer named Albert Plesman, KLM inaugurated the world's first scheduled airplane passenger service in 1920 by flying from London to Amsterdam in a chartered de Havilland 16. By World War II it had a fleet of 51 planes, served 61 cities in 29 countries. In a few days Nazi bombers almost completely wiped it out. At war's end KLM had only four planes in Europe, but Plesman (who died in 1953) gathered KLM personnel from all over the world, led "the Flying Dutchman" in a remarkable...