THE NETHERLANDS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 118, 21 May 1941, Page 5

THE NETHERLANDS

WAR WINNING FACTOR * — , GIFT OF HOSPITAL SHIP. CP.A.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. New Zealand's appreciation of the action of the Netherlands Government in placing the motor-ship Oranje at the disposal of the New Zealand and Australian Governments for use as a hospital ship was expressed by the acting-Prime Minister, the.Hon. W. Nash, at a luncheon given by the Government In honour of the Netherlands Ministers visiting the Dominion, Mr. E. N. van Kleflens and Mr. C. J. 1. M. Welter. It was revealed by Mr. Nash that the staffing of the hospital ship had been undertaken by the Netherlands authorities and that all the New Zealand and Australian Governments would have on the ship would be liaison officers. The function was attended by a representative gathering. A cordial welcome was extended by Mr. Nash to* the visiting Ministers and the members of their staff, Count van Rechteren. counsellor to the Dutch legation in Washington, Mr. \V. Peekema. head of the legal division of the Dutch Colonial Office, and Dr. F. L. Rutgers, deputy-chief of the economic <i;vi- i.i] of the Colonial Office. "Holland is going to be one of trie trreal factors in wmninc the wa~." said Mr. Nash. "for wars were not only won with men and machines, raw materials and navies: they an 1 won by attitudes of mind, by human qualitand it i< in These human qualitie> that tr.e Dutch people excel. And it is here whin the time comes that the vio; id v.\lJ know that the Dut«-h people azain. by their inherent qualities., have helped to throw off the foreign oppre.-sor." Mr. van Kkffens expressed aptyeriatiorj of the cordial welcome they had recti vc-d in New Zealand. Mr. vr-n Klcffen? and Mr. Welter will leave -W< :!;ntr*on to-morrow to -ee some of th r ' s-ocnic beauties of .the North I^and.