Word: maastricht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made an honorary member of the Royal Netherlands Choral Society, in honor of U.S. soldiers who made Maastricht the first Dutch town to be liberated during the war. He received a first-edition block of the 3? George Washington Carver memorial stamps from Postmaster General Donaldson. Kiwanis International President Charles Armstrong informed him that Kiwanis was against Communism, for the United Nations...
...have returned to Maastricht (Holland) to find the town totally changed. It seemed to me as though life itself had suddenly emerged from the darkness of cellars to the sunshine-basked surface...
...Belgium, the Resistance and hunger were behind the crisis. In Maastricht, liberated Holland's biggest city, underground fighters (Stoottroepen, meaning shock troops) charged three prominent citizens with collaboration, clapped them into jail. When Interior Minister Jacob Burger protested against indiscriminate purging, the Stoottroepen of both occupied and liberated Holland forced his resignation...
Crisis in The Netherlands. In the narrow sectors of liberated Holland the crisis was less acute, but the Maastricht appendix was inflamed. And over all liberated Holland the fear of hunger washed like the sea through the Nazi-blasted dikes. For it was chiefly the most industrialized sections of Holland that had been liberated. There was no meat, scarcely any bread. It was believed that reserves of fuel (and hence electric power) could not last out the month. Hordes of refugees from the flooded regions had swarmed into the cities, further complicating the food crisis...
...Maastricht district the Government clashed with the Resistance forces. The Resistance groups resented the removal of the mayors they had installed in various towns, the restoration of Queen Wilhelmina's prewar officials. They talked loudly of "petticoat government" and the need for "economic democracy." "We took up arms against the Germans," they muttered, "and we can do it again...