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Late last month, the Swiss-based Anne Frank Fonds (foundation), which holds the rights to all of Frank's writings, threatened to sue the Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool after it ran previously unpublished pages from Anne's diary about the elder Franks' relationship. The paper would not divulge the source of its story. But the prime suspect is Cor Suijk, a senior official at the Anne Frank Center in New York City and a source for German journalist Melissa Muller's new and well-timed biography Anne Frank (Metropolitan Books; 330 pages...
...Dutch correspondent. On July 10, a few days after returning to the Installation and exactly seven years after my clash with Khrushchev over nuclear testing, I turned on the BBC or VOA and heard my name. The announcer reported that on July 6 the Dutch newspaper Het Parool had published my article...
...heart of Amsterdam. As the Dutch-Jewish millionaire businessman left the hotel shortly after 1 a.m. last Friday, he was seized by armed men, who hustled him into a waiting red sedan and sped away. Nine hours later an anonymous caller, speaking in German, telephoned the daily Het Parool with the message that Dutch police had been expecting and dreading: "This is the Red Army Faction. We have Caransa. You will hear from...
...Claus 'raus!" Asked Rotterdam's good grey Nieuwe Courant. "Can a German put flowers at our memorials for heroes he fought against?" Amsterdam's Het Parool objected that the future queen's husband "cannot be a man whom a large part of the Dutch people meets with reluctance." The Calvinist daily Trouw, which came out in favor of the match, was barraged with angry letters; though published letters against the marriage averaged 55% in most papers, editors conceded privately that the actual mail was nearer 70% against. A few orange swastikas appeared on street walls...
...effect have energy to spare for his goal of making France pre dominant in Western Europe. But the other European nations prefer a De Gaulle obsessed with French grandeur in Europe to a De Gaulle single-mindedly concerned with a crippling war in Algeria. As Amsterdam's Het Parool put it: "The solution of the Algerian problem is a relief not only for France but for the West as a whole. It will provide France with the opportunity to fulfill her duties as a NATO ally. Before, she demanded a kind of place of honor in NATO...