The trade between The Netherlands and the United States has blossomed with the opening of a Holland House in New York.

From Rotterdam last week arrived the first of the 100,000,000 tulip, gladioli, iris, hyacinth, crocus and daffodil bulbs worth some $5,000,000 which the Dutch annually export to the U. S. This week the cordial trade relations between The Netherlands and the U. S. blossomed with the announcement that a vacant…

Last week the Nieuw Amsterdam set sail to cross the Atlantic and arrived faster than expected in New York.

On a chilly May midnight long after the hour when they usually go to bed, thousands of good Dutchmen packed Rotterdam’s quays. The well-to-do in their American automobiles — with headlights glaring and horns shrieking—formed a traffic jam for a mile along the River Maas. The middle-to-do on bicycles…

New Amsterdam is the newest air-conditioned flagship of the Holland-America Line.

Oslofjord, Though Norway’s merchant marine is fourth biggest on the seas, the navy that defends it has a total personnel of 1,200, includes but four battleships. Nevertheless, Norway announced last week that the new flagship of its merchant marine, the Oslofjord, is a peace ship and inconvertible to war purposes…

S. S. Rotterdam of the Holland-America line is “perhaps a little” faster, but the money has been invested on solid Dutch comfort.

The slowest de luxe liners on the trans-Atlantic run are big, broad boats sailed by big, broad Dutchmen. Into Manhattan last week hove the S. S. Rotterdam, fresh from a $1,000,000 overhaul.

“Is she any faster?” chorused reporters who think speed is news.

“Well, gentlemen, perhaps a little,” said Mynheer Adrian…