Word: marijnen
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...years has allocated programming of radio and, more recently, television broadcasts among the five big religious and political groups in Holland: the Catholics, the Conservative Protestants, the Liberal Protestants, and the political Liberal and Labor parties. Ever since he took office 19 months ago, Prime Minister Victor Marijnen has sought a way to admit advertising to The Netherlands' two TV channels. The idea of commercial television sounded fine to most viewers, and Dutch businessmen were becoming increasingly insistent. But some elements within the five big groups rejected every proposed scheme since it would steal air time and disrupt...
Finally, last month determined advertisers lined up the Liberal members in Marijnen's Cabinet, and brought to a stalemate the issue of whether the new commercial programmers would be independent or be forced to collaborate with the traditional groups. Marijnen threw up his hands, and presented the resignation of his government to Queen Juliana, explaining, "I never knew that television was such a difficult business...
...together a new government. After interrupting her talks for a visit to the dentist, she finally picked Catholic Parliamentarian Norbert Schmelzer, 43, as her informaleur-the man who, under Dutch practice, is empowered to look for the man who might be able to form a new Cabinet. Forming Marijnen's own coalition Cabinet in 1963 took 70 days of agonized negotiation in jealously pluralistic little Holland, and the Dutch, who are used to long periods of nongovernment when a principle is at stake, were settling down before their TV screens at week's end for a long...
Dream Bait. During his three-day stay, Subandrio conferred with Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns and Prime Minister Victor Marijnen, was granted a 45-minute audience with Queen Juliana, to whom he relayed "hearty greetings" from Sukarno. The Dutch, who agreed not to press for immediate payments on the $670 mil lion worth of Dutch properties expropriated by Sukarno six years ago, signed a technical-aid agreement with Indonesia, leaving tedious business details for later discussion. Beamed Subandrio: "We have no deep political differences any more." Having been twice bitten by Sukarno, both in Indonesia and New Guinea, the Dutch...
Early Sunday, after six weary hours of discussion with the family and its maverick princess, Prime Minister Marijnen and three senior ministers decided sadly that the time had not yet come when the Dutch could contemplate a Catholic monarch and a Spanish consort. Rather than renounce her love, Irene renounced the right of succession and agreed to live in exile. So died a princess...