Tulip Growers In War Net
Most people have had great reverence for Holland. It is a country whose name brings memories of homeliness of industry, of minding-its-own business. Somehow the hounds of warpreparedness seem to have left the Dutch to their homeland. Not so today, however. Holland has become like other nations, deeply committed to a monstrous defence programme. Defence against what? the Dutch ask. And the answer is that defence is necessary, for Holland is part of crisis-wracked Eujrope and Europe’s crises have always affected this little country. Few countries in Europe were struck so severely as Holland during the ‘ Great Depression" of 193135. Wages fell as foreign markets collapsed. Unemployment reached five times the world average. Extremist parties arose as they arose everywhere in the common search for light in darkness. Now. her main job, when she is not laying foundations for new guns, is keeping from her cities the mass instinct towards some or other form of "Ism." National Socialism in Germany, on one side, and Communism in Russia, on the other, have left the Dutch comparatively unperturbed. Holland is making a bold bid to keep her democratic ideas and ideals afloat, but she is not unmindful of what might happen If the thunder clouds about her borders bring lightning in their wake.
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Northern Advocate, 25 January 1939, Page 2
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