Word: telegraaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bernhard] on the throne, with her father and her paternal grandmother at her side." A quick check on the registration number of his automobile, said the Pictorial, revealed the man to be none other than Johann G. van Maasdijk, board chairman of the firm that publishes the influential De Telegraaf, and a palace chamberlain "in extraordinary service" to the Queen...
Died. Louis Raemaekers, 87, famed Dutch cartoonist whose savage World War I propaganda drawings for Amsterdam's De Telegraaf inflamed Allied emotions and endangered Holland's neutrality; in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. Bearded, mild-mannered Artist Raemaekers maintained his hatred of Germans through the years of uneasy peace, fled to the U.S. ahead of the Nazi invaders in 1940 to draw war cartoons briefly for New York City's tabloid PM. Half-German himself, Louis Raemaekers said in 1917: "It would be better ... if all the Germans could be wiped off the face of the earth...
...whose office won the 1954 Nobel Peace Prize for its thankless task of finding "permanent solutions" to the plight of some 350,000 anti-Communist refugees in Europe and Asia; of a heart attack while playing tennis; in Geneva, Switzerland. Prewar editor (1929-33) of the big Amsterdam Telegraaf, bald, brilliant Dr. Goedhart became a top-ranking resistance leader, later (1944) moved to London as Minister of Justice in the Dutch government in exile. Lately embittered by apparent indifference to the plight of the "hardcore" refugees, Goedhart threatened to resign, crying, "It is a scandal that 65,000 refugees...