Word: dirks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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General Henri Gerard Winkelman, Commander in Chief of the Dutch armed forces, made the announcement in the absence of Queen Wilhelmina and Premier Dirk Jan de Geer, who had fled to England...
...short-wave broadcast, Dutch Premier Dirk Jan de Geer called the 21 arrested fifth columnists "dangerous to the peace and security" of The Netherlands, declared that they were not interned because of their political beliefs but because of their personal conduct. Nazi Chief Anton Adrian Mussert was not arrested last week. Neither was he impressed by the Premier's speech. "I am certainly happy to be living in a democracy-in a free country," sneered Mussert...
...Ferargil Galleries showed the raw-colored, precise paintings of Georgian Lamar Dodd, one of the South's few good painters. The Boyer Galleries showed the kaleidoscopic water colors of Nathaniel Dirk, a camoufleur in World War I. In the Bonestell Gallery, Frenchman Jean Charlot, a founding father of the famed Mexican school, exhibited deceptively simple pictures of broad, squat peons and solemn babies. The Downtown Gallery had as fine a first one-man show as a crowded season has seen-Julian Levis serene, spacious paintings of the seaside...
...Netherlands Cabinet held a special meeting under old Premier Dirk Jan de Geer, decided that it would cancel all Army leaves. Since the usual Army leave is four days a month, this increased the Army's strength by some 10% to 400,000 men. The usually phlegmatic Dutch thought it necessary to point out that frozen canals were a very good defense indeed, since troops could be machine-gunned crossing them. It sounded like whistling in the dark...
...were warned that they "must now say whether they are willing to oppose English power politics." Most of the talk of neutral battlefields-both German and British-was aimed at Scandinavia, but The Netherlands was also under pressure. In a shaky New Year's broadcast shaky old Premier Dirk Jan de Geer exclaimed...