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Amsterdam became an international banking centre challenging in importance the City of London and the Paris Bourse. It houses such famous institutions as the Amsterdamsche Bank n. v., the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappy n. v., Mendelssohn & Co. (now defunct), whose proprietors will turn a guilder almost anywhere they can find one. They are still sorry that Spain's Dictator Franco turned down their offer to bank him last spring. After Adolf Hitler came to power, Amsterdam became a concentration camp for refugee money. The city's grain market is one of the biggest in Europe; its stock-market...
More remarkable was The Netherlands growth in manufactures. Lacking most of her food, forced to import almost all her industrial raw materials, the country nevertheless spurred its production of tiles and potteries, radio and electrical appliances, Diesel engines, chemicals. Amsterdam (and Antwerp in Belgium), are the largest diamond-cutting centres of the world, an operation carried on in plants similar to auto factories. Rotterdam developed into the continent's third biggest port for transshipment of goods and houses sizable shipbuilding yards...
...Almost all the well-to-do families in The Netherlands have their East Indian securities, and not the least investor is the House of Orange-Nassau. Century ago King William I invested $1,600,000 in the East. Large profits accrued, the capital multiplied many times again. Wilhelmina, an astute business woman herself, is a large owner of tin mines, just as she has a moneyed finger in the pie of nearly every enterprise of magnitude in Holland. Her income was once estimated at $5,000,000 a year, making her by far the richest monarch of Europe...
...plant. Soon Prague heard the crack of firing squads. Nine Czech students were executed, and all universities in the Protectorate were closed for three years, treatment no less harsh than the Tsars used to give their rebellious undergraduates. Over 2,000 people were arrested in Prague. Eight hundred were almost immediately released, but the Nazis were said to be sending many of the rest to the notorious Buchenwald prison camp in Germany near Weimar...
...realities. . . . Senseless opposition to armed might . . . can't win, but on the contrary can lose much. . . . The Czech people have been spared the horrors of war, such as defeated Poland, and our sons have not been led into battle, as in the case of Austria. You are able, almost all of you, to work in peace. In certain ways your position is probably better than that of a neutral country...