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...holding my bags introduced himself. "I am Eduard Witschey, the burgomaster," he said. "We understand that you have come to see how Marshall help works in our village." With a glance at the banquet table, he added: "I thought you would like to meet some of the people of the town. The Queen's Commissioner will be a little late...
...European Recovery." The Queen's Commissioner arrived, Burgomaster Witschey said grace in Dutch, and dinner proceeded: three stout courses followed by brandy and a speech by the burgomaster. "Thanks to America," he said, "we are able to work." Next day I was shown what that meant...
...Mice & Near-Misses. Burgomaster Witschey felt that, with the mills humming, the town itself could make some plans for simple reconstruction. One day in 1944, 600 of Nijverdal's homes were damaged or destroyed by the near-misses of Allied bombers attacking a German V-2 launching platform just back of town. With the mills hardly running at all, the town had been too poor to do much about repairs. Nijverdal could remedy that now. Burgomaster Witschey hoped for renovation of the down-at-heel town hall, too: a couple of months ago, mice nibbled through his desk drawer...
Both Mijnheer van der Meulen's increased production schedules and Burgomaster Witschey's civic improvement plans are regarded as encouraging in Nijverdal. But "Marshall help" means something more personal than that. A slippered housewife made the point succinctly. "From 1931 to 1936," she said, "there wasn't much work at the mill. Jan dug peat. Almost the whole town dug peat. If Jan loses his job again, I don't think we would get over...
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