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Germany's Commissioner for The Netherlands, persuasive Arthur Seyss-Inquart, was near the end of his tether last week. The Dutch just could not be persuaded. On a tour of the country, Commissioner Seyss-Inquart personally distributed batches of pamphlets showing Adolf Hitler as he used to be caricatured in The Netherlands and, beside the caricatures, flattering photographs illustrating "the true, kind personality of the Führer." Dutchmen simply folded the pamphlets to show their favorite caricature, then stuck them in the most convenient frame...
Germany's failure to cross the English Channel is the subject of many jokes in The Netherlands. Last September Commissioner Seyss-Inquart had to forbid the singing of Wir Fahren Gegen Engelland (We Are Sailing Against England) because small boys followed the singing German troops and on the three drumbeats between verse and chorus yelled: "Swim! Swim! Swim...
Poor, patient Dr. Seyss-Inquart was in much the same spot as a fuddyduddy professor in a classroom of rowdy boys. He found it necessary to jail a 50-year-old businessman and his two sons for "demonstratively averting their eyes from the screen on which a newsreel of the Commissioner was shown." He transferred all four Dutch radio transmitting stations to State ownership because of sly jibes in their broadcasts. He was outraged by a decision of the annual synod of the Dutch Reformed Church to begin all church services with a prayer for "Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina, other...
...such facts as these leak out of the occupied Netherlands Dr. Seyss-Inquart does not yet know. Other facts leak out too. To trick British airmen into wasting bombs the German Army of Occupation built a vast fake airfield of wood, with hangars and planes painted on it. Next night a lone British plane flew overhead, dropped a lone wooden bomb...
...they seen grass greener, clouds lovelier, May's tulips more glorious, than in Holland last week. But they could not miss a note of grimness either. Determined Protestants, the Dutch taught all Europe 350 years ago that foreign domination could be resisted and overthrown. For them a Seyss-Inquart is another Duke of Alba...