CRISIS SOLVED IN HOLLAND

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27676, 4 June 1955, Page 7

CRISIS SOLVED IN HOLLAND

Coalition Withdraws Resignation (Rec. 8 p.m.) THE HAGUE, June 2. Holland’s 16-day-old Cabinet crisis was solved tonight when the Coalition Government withdraw its resignation. The Parliamentary Socialists leader, Mr J. Burger, reported to Queen Juliana today' that he had succeeded in finding a basis on which the present Government could continue in office. The Queen who proposed the Government should reconsider its resignation, and the Prime Minister, Dr. Willem Drees, withdrew it. The Government fell when its proposals for a rent increase of 5 per cent, to 10 per cent, on pre-war houses were rejected. The Socialists switched votes against their own Prime Minister. Political observers feared the crisis marked the end of the coalition, which has governed the Netherlands since the end of the war.

Hearing On Visa For Dr. Nathan (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 2. The United States Court of Appeals today ordered the State Department to give Dr. Otto Nathan, an executor of Albert Einstein’s will, a prompt and full hearing on his application for a passport. The ruling was made soon after the department notified the Court that it refused Dr. Nathan a passport because of charges that he was a Communist Party member in Germany before 1933, and had since associated with Communists and Communist fronts.

Judge Henry Schweinhaut, in a Federal District Court yesterday, ordered the State Department to give Dr. Nathan a passport immediately. The Government promptly asked the Appeals Court to stay Judge Schweinhaut’s order.