HOLLAND'S PLAN
ANNEXATION OF GERMAN TERRITORY
10,000 SQUARE MILE STRIP ALONG FRONTIER
(Rec. 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 20. Holland contemplates the annexation of a 10,000 square mile strip along the entire German frontier to provide room for 1,500,000 people, and to include coal mines and forests, besides agricultural lands. Dr Kessen, chief of the cultural section of the Netherlands War Department, defining Holland's requirements, said annexation was not a kind ot imperialism, but a question of necessity in view of the fact that many ot the Netherlands provinces had been devasted and many towns and villages destroyed. , He added that the annexed area: would have to be totally cleansed of. Germans.
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Evening Star, Issue 25494, 26 May 1945, Page 7
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111HOLLAND'S PLAN Evening Star, Issue 25494, 26 May 1945, Page 7
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