NETHERLANDS: Occupation

Last week tall, tart Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, who as Chiang Kai-shek's chief military adviser once taught Chinese troops to goose-step, took over the military Government of the Low Countries for Adolf Hitler. At the same time Berlin let it be known that Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart of Austria and points east, Germany's handy man for disciplining captured countries, would become civil administrator of The Netherlands when the time is ripe.

The time was already ripe enough to send crack foreign-tradester and Göring's right hand, Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, to inventory Dutch...

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