FREE FROM STRIFE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23463, 30 March 1938, Page 7

FREE FROM STRIFE

HOLLAND’S HAPPY STATE SLOW RECOVERY FROM WAR EFFECTS (Per United Press Association) WELLINGTON, Mar. 29. With most of its larger European neighbours in a state of turmoil, Holland, one of the few remaining strongholds of democracy, was comparatively free from strife, said Dr Roosmale Nepveu, who arrived at Wellington by the Awatea this morning. “ The Fascists are nothing and the Communists—we don’t take much notice of them,” Dr Nepveu said. A few years ago there were 53 political parties in Holland, but the number bad since been reduced, Di Nepveu continued. The most important of the remaining parties had their basis in religion ratber than in political theories, and probably as a result there was little industrial trouble. Although non-combatant Holland suffered much through the Great War and was only now slowly re-ship-building industry was at prescovering. Dr Nepveu said that the ent active, but most of the other businesses were not so fortunate. For 24 years Dr Nepveu, who is a doctor of law, was the Burgomaster of Apeldoorn, a town of 70,000 population, and for 12 years before that was Burgomaster of other towns. The office is similar to that of Mayor.