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...remaining snag was the presence of British troops in Indonesia. To liquidate this problem, Clark Kerr shepherded The Netherlands' rotund Premier, Willem Schermerhorn, across the Channel for a chat with Clement Attlee. From the talks came quick results and a crisp communique: "An agreement was reached as regards the measures still necessary to liquidate the war with Japan and the gradual withdrawal of British troops and their replacement by Dutch forces...
Clement Attlee played the firm but friendly host to Holland's Premier Willem Schermerhorn. Guests included British Minister of State Philip Noel-Baker, who had publicly demanded that Indonesians and Dutch get together; Netherlands Minister for Overseas Territories J. H. A. Logemann, who had publicly barred a return of "the extinct past" to the East Indies; Old Etonian Sir Nevile Bland, who as Ambassador to The Hague has the delicate job of relaying British views on how the Dutch should run their empire; Java-born Dr. Hubertus J. Van Mook, the Acting Governor General, fresh from the rebellious East...
Across the Alps, Dutch Conductor Willem Mengelberg, permanently barred from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (TiME, Aug. 13) for conducting German orchestras, is living alone near St. Moritz rather than return to face the music. At Lake Geneva gray-haired Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic and Göring-appointed Nazi Staatsrat of Prussia, is writing a symphony. In Wiesbaden, bald Pianist Walter Gieseking played twice for U.S. Army audiences before someone got wind of his wartime collaboration. He was promptly forbidden to make another appearance...
Conspicuously missing was Dr. Willem Mengelberg, who during 43 years as the Concertgebouw's director was the undisputed lord of Dutch music. The Netherlands Honor Council of Music had sacked him for joining the Nazi Culture Chamber, making guest appearances with German orchestras...
...lapping over into The Nether lands. But Queen Wilhelmina had her finger in the dike. Her new Government for a country radically changed as a result of war and German occupation was not yet completed. But into it she had invited two leaders of the new political forces -Willem Schermerhorn, former Resistance leader, who had had time to dream up new ideas for The Netherlands while he was a Nazi prisoner, and Willem Drees, Social Democrat and trade union leader...