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...priest from The Hague, Msgr. Adrianus J. Simonis, now 39. "Simonis?" said a leading Dutch progressive priest at the time. "An unimportant voice." Soon, by a decree of Pope Paul VI, that "unimportant voice" will speak as bishop of some 1,000,000 Roman Catholics in the diocese of Rotterdam, where he has suddenly become the focus of a growing furor in the Dutch church...
...appointment plunged the Vatican and the Dutch church into confrontation once again, just as it appeared that relations were beginning to simmer down after last year's clash over the celibacy issue. Rotterdam liberals were furious that Paul had bypassed three candidates sent to him by their diocesan chapter, the diocese's most important advisory council. By custom, a Dutch bishop is usually selected from such a council's nominees; if none is acceptable to Rome, the chapter is asked for another list. But the Vatican did not request...
...advisers have long felt that a significant number-even a "silent majority"-of Dutch Catholics were both more loyal and less progressive than their vocal clergy and hierarchy, and Paul was apparently determined that those Catholics should be represented in the Dutch episcopate. When the list from the Rotterdam chapter failed to include such a man, Paul simply reached beyond it to select Simonis...
...party drove to the Moscow television tower restaurant for after-dinner coffee, Kosygin suddenly ordered the driver to stop the auto and took Brandt for a 20-minute walk along Kalinin Prospect, Moscow's most modern shopping street, whose glass-sheathed buildings could easily stand in Dusseldorf or Rotterdam...
...Dutch sense of humor may have persisted during the ordeal; very little else did. The Dutch surrendered to the Germans shortly after invasion, only hours after the bombing of Rotterdam and with only 2,100 army dead: they meant to survive. For the first three years of the war, most of the Dutch went about their business with inexplicable efficiency. The trains operated on time even when they began carrying Jews off to concentration camps. Then two things began to affect the Dutch mood: the growing hope for an Allied victory, and the increased tyranny of the conquerors. Reprisals soared...