Word: utrecht
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holland led off the revival in Europe by actually opening a national fair at Utrecht last week under the auspices of Queen Wilhelmina. Although more stalls were provided for exhibitors than ever before at Utrecht, there were not enough...
...cardinal-elect might not travel to Rome: Johannes de Jong of Utrecht, Holland's first cardinal since the Reformation, whose physician decided he had not yet recovered from a recent motor accident. His red hat would be brought to him by a papal legate...
...first time since the Papacy's 14th-Century "Babylonian captivity" in France, Italians were in the minority. For the first time, every continent had a cardinal. The next Pope might well be non-Italian-which has not happened since the 1522 conclave chose short-reigned Hadrian VI of Utrecht...
...Pope neglect the traditionally Protestant part of Europe. Britain's stocky, genial Bernard Griffin, 46, was the youngest cardinal appointed; Archbishop Johannes de Jong of Utrecht was the first Dutch diocesan to receive the red hat since the Reformation...
Allied airmen last week reported that the Germans were moving troops eastward in The Netherlands, north of the Lek (northern branch of the lower Rhine). This might foretell a Nazi evacuation of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague. It might mean that the Germans were afraid of being cut off in the western Netherlands by an Allied push to the Zuider Zee. More probably, it meant that they needed the Dutch garrison to help man the Rhine. As against 70 or 80 divisions in December, Rundstedt was now estimated to have no more than 40 or 50 in the west. Since...