Word: holland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nation tour is typical of the NSA offerings in this field. Students taking this tour will spend two weeks each in England, Holland, and France, and will have one week for independent travel. In each country the first week will be taken up with excursions to sites of historical interest and general lectures on current problems...
Work camp opportunities are in Holland, England, and Finaland...
Before the war, the Netherlands East Indies supplied one-fifth of Holland's national wealth. Although the Dutch had ruled benevolently and were generally respected by the natives, the victory of Japanese troops in 1942 had a profound effect on the nationalist movement. Full of promises, the conquerors set up a puppet government of nationalist leaders. Collaborators soon found the promises worthless, but in 1945 they did not regret their move. The Japanese surrender caught British and Dutch troops unprepared. To keep order in the Islands, the Allies were forced to recognize existing Republican sovereignty in Java and Sumatra...
...March, 1947, nationalists believed their 40-year-old cause at last victorious when they signed the Lingajatti Agreement with the Dutch, according them de facto recognition. There was no dispute about ends; both the Republic and Holland desired a United States of Indonesia which would win equal status with the Netherlands in a new commonwealth. A serious quarrel developed over means, however. The Agreement provided for each State to determine freely its relation to the U.S.I. and to the Netherlands. Fearing to unlcash the Republic altogether lost it decide against inclusion later on, the Dutel, demanded strict control...
...Holland...