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...STORY OF THE PACIFIC-Hendrik Willem Van Loon-Harcourt, Brace...
Hendrik Willem Van Loon is a big, cheerful, childlike Dutchman with a flair for historical baby talk. He illustrates his genial versions of the horrors of human history with squiggly, screwy pen-&-ink drawings; spices them with amiable prejudices (sample prejudices: against Bushmen, missionaries, Painter Paul Gauguin). In 1921 Author Van Loon hit his historical stride with The Story of Mankind. Last week he confined himself to The Story of the Pacific...
President of the "Wilhelmina" committee is Hendrik Willem van Loon '04, while Johannes A. C. F. Auer, Professor of Church History and Parkman Professor of Theology, is head of the New England chapter...
...help itself now. Thousands of Hollanders saw their possessions destroyed overnight. A procession of war stricken refugees, including hundreds of students like you and me, began to tread the road of desperate flight. To help these people, a committee has been organized under the presidency of Hendrik Willom van Loon. This "Queen Wilhelmina Fund" has a New England chapter under the presidency of Professor Auer of Harvard University. Contributions to this fund, will be used for the relief of Dutch refugees. Every Harvard student who wants to help my country in this, its darkest hour in history, is requested...
...Temple University's student chiefs telegraphed a plea to calm "war hysteria"; Harvard Professor Roger Merriman criticized a student anti-war petition as failing "to see the moral issue"; Stanford students wired Mr. Roosevelt protests at his Pan-American policies; in Manhattan Author Hendrik Willem Van Loon resigned from the Dutch Treat Club because Author Clarence Budington Kelland remarked: "The fifth column in this country is headed by that fellow in the White House...