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INVADING HOLLAND WOULD. BE A
CRIME AGAINST
DECENCY
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HE army of the Netherlands and the army of Belgium are mobilised in an ticipation of an attack from Nazi Germany. Whether their anxiety is justifled or who- ther it is not, the fact of the mobilisation must be taken seriously. For the Dutch are not a hysterical people; they are probably the least hysterical people in Europe,
They are also a thrifty people, and the mobilisation is costing them a million florins a day, which is a terrific strain even upon as solid and solvent a State as the Nether- lands.
If the problem of this epoch is how to abolish poverty, keep domestic tranquillity, raise the standard of living extend and deep en popular education and promote human happiness inside ordered freedom, then we and everybody else can learn more from the Netherlands than from the great em- pires.
PATTERN TO GREATER NATIONS There is nothing whatever to justify the attitude now popular among certain "in- tellectual" circles that the small States of states: Europe must pass into mammoth that the day of the small nation is past. Its day is past only if it is attacked and des- troyed by brute force.
From any civilised standard those small and long existing nations of Europe the Switzerland and Scandinavian countries, Holland-are 'way ahead of the "great" na- tions. And among them the Netherlands is pre-eminent for its "wealth, its enterprise, its large measure of economic equality, 'Its colonial administration, its popular culture, its sold nationalism, its international vision and its devotion to peace.
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An attack on Holland is an attack western civilisation. If it happens it will mean that neutrality is a myth. If it hap- pens it will be a crime not only against the Netherlands, but a crime against all de- cency, all civilisation, and against the very concept of neutrality. -
The Nazis want submarino bases in Hol-
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was, entirely properly, refused. It was not ostentatiously refused. The news was not. given any publicity. For, Holland. wishes to with remain on the best possible terms both sides in this war.
During the last war the Dutch handled an ultimatum from the Kaiser so tactfully, with such political and diplomatic skill, that the the facts about it never leaked out until war was over.
TREADING WARILY For Holland must tread warlly. She is wide open to. Germany. She is a nation of
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Holland, confident of her long tradition of and peace, neutrality and co-operation, banking on the esteem in which all her neighbours hold her; had so turned her face away from war, and turned it away, it seemed, for ever, that, with all the rest. of the Europe arming, she kept defence on fifth or sixth position on her Budget, with education at the top of it and social wel fare next.
It was only when Nazi policy began to alarm her, and, that was relatively late- In 1938-that Defence and the Public Debt (enlarged by defence necessitles) rose to the top place.
peace for a century, and in this position she has developed a solid prosperity which is remarkable.
Since 1922 Holland's Asiatic possessions have been an integral part of the Nether- lands, and her colonial administration
art as regarded even by her rivals at this exemplary. She is traditionally a free-trade nation.
The Nazi economy has forced her to make adjustments to it, as the Japanese have forced her to do in her Asiatic possessions. developed. The latter she has constantly made enormous expenditures upon educa- tion, especially primary education, and the effelency and fairness of her administra- tion has spared her much of the trouble that others have had in their colonies.
The most grandiose conquests of Holland do not lie in the distant past and in the conquest of other races, but are in the con- quest of nature and the sea, and this con- quest has been continual.
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The people of Holland have created their country, in the most exact sense of word. They have drained swamps and have had to fight for home soll daily. The great polders, dried out lakes, must constantly be redrained— that is the reason for the wind-mill as the characteristic mark of the Dutch landscape.
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Forty per cent, of the country lies below sea level, and the greatest cities, Amster dam and Rotterdam, stand on land snatch- cd from the ocean. The immense reclam❤
-By- DOROTHY THOMPSON
ation job the draining of the Zulder Zec- will add 900 square miles to Holland, whose total surface is only 13,000 square miles, enlarging the nation by a province, and by creative and productive work, not by con- quest- and war.
Holland has no great "natural resources" except coal. This she developed after the war to make herself independent of, Ger- man coal from the Ruhr, so successfully that it has become a leading export.
Apart from this her exports are flowers, vegetables, textiles and dairy products. Yet Holland is rich, for the Dutch are very able
Holland does an enormous.. traders, and amount of Europe's 'banking.
Twenty-four thousand ships a year enter her ports, and more than a third of them are Dutch ships." Her civil aviation_is not- ed. For years the flying lines to Batavia via Bangkok have held. the world's record for safety.
'Holland is one of the last outposts in the world of genuine. liberalism. Nowhere is the human mind more free than in Holland. fewer nations have Far more populous great scholars and artists to their credit in history,
Now, with that quiet efficiency for which the Dutch are notable, she has accom-
Modern 'Holland is Protestant, enlighten- plished remarkable things with her arma- ment, but no conceivable armament could ed, and socially minded. Her efforts to make her position anything but precarious. achieve peace on the basis of international Holland's need for neutrality is predicat-law have been unremitting. The first peace ed upon her economic position as a trading conference in the world was called in Hol- nation and open her situation in the Far land at the end of the last century, East. She depends upon the British Navy Hague is the home to protect her Aslatic possessions. She Court of Justice,
With a great tradition of economic liber- depends upon the friendship of Germany to alism, Holland, too, has undergone social protect her land defences.
Twenty-three per cent. of her exports go to Great Britain: 15.0 per cent. to. Ger many: 8 per cent, to the United States. Of her imports, 23.3 per cent, are from Ger- many; 9.3 per cent. from Great Britain, and 7 per cent. from the United States.
· CONQUESTS OVER NATURE In peace and in war, therefore, the des- tiny of Holland hangs between Great Bri- tain and Germany, and she has cultivated good relations with both to an exquisite de gree. In this position she has stayed at
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changes and adjustments in the direction of more governmental social control in behalf she of the masses. But she has made these ad- Justments without revolution, because has had wise leadership and because her people are politically active and politically gifted.
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There is obligatory old age, and invalid Lasurance; some of the most superb public housing and community planning in world; excellent labour relations, and quite (Continued on':Page -11).
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NOW-HERE'S ANOTHER LETTER FORWARDED TO
US FROM BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA OUR SON IS ASKING FOR MORE CASH- I WONDER WHAT HE THINKS | AM?
THAT'S BESIDE THE QUESTION- WHY DON'T YOU CALL UP THE DARLING BOY AND SPEAK TO HIM ?
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