Word: van
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Washington diplomatic circles, particularly the British, turned an inquisitive eye on the man who was about to assume America's top assignment in foreign diplomacy-the successor to Thomas Pinckney, John Jay, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Martin Van Buren, James Russell Lowell, John Hay et al. Who was O. (for Oliver) Max Gardner...
...into calamity and the Dutch air force was destroyed. Thereafter, it would have been pointless, militarily, for the Dutch Army to attempt resistance. To the Indonesians, however, the Army was the symbol of Dutch rule. When the Army did not fight and Dutch Governor General A. W. L. Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer* fled to Australia, the Indonesians lost all respect for the Dutch. Millions of Indonesians swallowed the Jap slogan "Asia for the Asiatics...
Meanwhile British diplomacy, first in the person of Sir Archibald Clark Kerr (now Lord Inverchapel), who was succeeded by Lord Killearn, continued its efforts to bring the Dutch and the Indonesians together. Former Dutch Premier Willem Schermerhorn, who had blamed van Mook for dealing with collaborators, came out to Java and soon found himself discussing the situation over Scotch & soda with Soekarno, whose Mohammedanism is not so rigid that he scorns a drink...
Except for two Rembrandts, the paintings at the National Gallery were mostly minor masterpieces by such Dutch genre and landscape painters as Steen, Aver-camp and Van der Neer. They added up to $1,000,000 worth of intimate history from a flat, fat land. The loan show was starting a one-year tour of the 114 U.S. museums which had supplied men for the Army's fine arts section. It had been selected by Art Professor Alphons Voren-kamp of Smith College (who helped identify many of the paintings when he was a wartime lieutenant colonel...
Biographer Irving Stone, who wrote Lust for Life (Van Gogh) and Immortal Wife (Jessie Benton Fremont), turned to a new field of history in his "historical" screenplay on the life of Dolly Madison...