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...NETHERLANDS AT WAR: 1940-1 945 by Walter B. Maass. 264 pages. Abe-lard-Schuman...
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the changes wrought by the occupation than two wartime jokes that Author Walter Maass-a Vienna-born chemist who worked with the Dutch resistance-retells in his book. In 1940, when the occupation began, the Dutch stores were so well stocked that German officers spent much of their time shopping for delicacies unavailable at home; a British agent in a German uniform was caught, the story goes, because he wasn't carrying any packages. In 1945, the humor was more of the gallows variety: facing a German firing squad, two Dutch boys smile when they...
...version also includes a sentence-stemming from an amendment by Arthur A. Maass, Thomson Professor of Government-designed to further separate the issues of Faculty and student culpability...
...version also adds a sentence to the old resolution-stemming from an amendment proposed by Arthur Maass, Thomson Professor of Government-de signed to further separate the issues of Faculty and student culpability...
...Maass amendment-defeated 17-1 in the Faculty Council-passed after two recounts by an 84-79 vote...