Word: willem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future. Twelve days after the Security Council ordered him to, the Dutch commander in Indonesia, Lieut. General S. H. Spoor, had told his troops to cease fire (except for "action against roaming groups and gangs or individuals who try to cause disturbances"). Pale, tired Dutch Prime Minister Willem Drees flew to Batavia, to get Republicans to cooperate in a Dutch-sponsored Indonesian interim government. Queen Juliana promised Indonesia "order, prosperity, freedom, independence and sovereignty in a federal state...
There were indeed some ablutionary gestures in the council. Britain, France and Belgium opposed any further action against The Netherlands for the present; the U.S. did not want to quarrel with its Western allies. The Dutch meanwhile announced that Prime Minister Willem Drees would personally go to Indonesia to settle the islands' future. The way things looked in Indonesia last week (see below), that was not impossible; but it would take some doing. India's Prime Minister Pandit Nehru last week called for a conference of 14 Asiatic and Middle Eastern nations to discuss ways & means of helping...
...promulgated, setting up a provisional Indonesian federation which did not include the republic. Everyone knew that the decree could not be enforced without military action. The Socialists were opposed to fighting (the royal family was said to be against it also); but the war party, led by War Minister Willem F. Schokking, had its way. A go-ahead signal was flashed to Lieut. General Simon H. Spoor in Batavia...
...entire family-her husband (Willem Nyland, a chemist), two children, a collie and 17 cats-sometimes congregate in the studio while she draws wallpaper designs or New Yorker covers. It doesn't bother...
...help her discharge her responsibilities, the Dutch people have elected a sober, able lot of politicians. The two largest parties, the Laborites and the Catholics, work well together. The Netherlands' Premier, Willem Drees, is a quiet, respected Socialist who started out as a bank clerk and parliamentary stenographer. Last week he peered through his pince-nez from behind his neat desk and spoke to a U.S. newsman. "Western Union? A fine and necessary thing, but it will take a lot of time ... Holland is grateful indeed...