THE NETHERLANDS: Calm in Crisis

For the first time in her pious life, plump Princess Juliana turned up at a Sunday football game in Amsterdam last week—to show her nervous countrymen how to be calm in a crisis. To show that the crisis was passing, the Army ordered that monthly four-day leaves be resumed after two weeks of complete mobilization.

If the crisis was not so acute as it had been two weeks earlier, there was no sign that it might not become acute again at any moment. More & more The Netherlands took on the aspect of an armed camp. With the entire country...

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