HAS RETURNED TO HOLLAND

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 33, 8 February 1941, Page 5

HAS RETURNED TO HOLLAND

FORMER DUTCH PREMIER HAD SPECIAL MISSION IN EAST INDIES RETURN DEEMED A DISLOYAL ACT Received Feb. 7, 9.51 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 6. The former Netherlands Prime Minister. Dirk Jan de Greer, despite solemn assurance to the contrary, has returned to Holland. Announcing, with indignation, de Greer’s departure Hom Lisbon for Holland, the Royal Netherlands Government adds that he formed the present Cabinet in June, 1939, and retained leadership until last September. Thus he was head of the Government when the Germans invaded Holland. Therefore, he had an important share in the Cabinet’s decision to go to London from The Hague with Queen Wilhelmina. Some time after de Greer’s resignation from the Premiership, the Government entrusted him with a mission in the Netherlands Indies. De Greer left England last November under an express condition that the official facilities granted him were exclusively for the purpose above mentioned. “The Government now has a painful duty to declare that de Greeks conduct is a breach of loyalty and also an act detrimental to the national interest,” states the Royal Netherlands Government. "The unfortunate incident in nowise is capable of an interpretation indicating any change of the Royal Netherlands Government’s firm determination to continue the war alongside Britain until victory.”