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Last week, three and a half centuries later, 1,500 Dutch immigrants were on their way to Sydney on the liner Volendam. The last of some 13,000 who left Holland in 1949, they were looking only for land, for Holland is crowded to the dikes with energetic Dutchmen. With the highest birth rate in Western Europe, and the lowest death rate in the world, Holland has doubled its population in the last 50 years, now has 10 million people for an area little larger than Maryland. Grumbled a Rotterdam cab driver: "This country gets...
...after 18 months in Canada, are too homesick to stay in foreign lands. But while the twelve Lamers children were coming home, the 14 Branderhorst children, and others like them, were leaving Holland. Said Simon Eygenraam, en route with his wife and four children to "New Holland" on the Volendam: "There must be opportunities for people like us die niet bang zijn voor hard werk [who are not afraid to work hard], and at least we won't be crowded out of a living. Sure, it's a big risk to go off like this, but it would...
Cunard's "Scythia" and "Samaria" were former iuxury liners which had been pressed into service as troop transports during the war and had only partly recovered. So were Holland-American's "Volendam" and "Tabinta." The United States Lines ran three little war-design ex-transports with the ominous names of "Marino Tiger," "Flasher," and "Shark." None of the boats were exactly models of comfort--the Cunard ships, which had had a capacity of 500 in their luxury days, were carrying up to 1400 this summer. And there were ugly rumors that the reason half the ships sailed from Quebec...
...last night before reaching shore, passengers followed the old tradition of putting on ship's variety shows. The "Volendam" ended one trip with a skit called "North Atlantic," featuring the music of "South Pacific"; a "Scythia" production led with the verse...
...Hoboken, N.J. one day last month, honey-haired Ruth Comfort, a University of Toronto student, was all set to walk down the gangplank of the Volendam and take the train home. Then a U.S. immigration officer began to question...