The 82nd Airborne Division lost  800 soldiers at the battle of Nijmegen. Last week they got a memorial. In honor of the 8nd $2mil. was raised to help rebuild the University of Nijmegen.

In April 1943, the German masters of The Netherlands ordered the University of Nijmegen (rhymes with sly pagan) to sign a loyalty pledge. It was promptly returned—unsigned—to occupation headquarters. Punishment came swiftly: many professors and students were dragged off to concentration and labor camps, and the university closed…

After four years of defeat, imprisonment and abuse, the Dutch in Indonesia are morose, sullen and apparently unable to cope with the vigorous native independence movement.

TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod witnessed the faces of men fighting and dying on New Guinea, Attu, Saipan, Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa. Last week he beheld what he described as “the most tragic face I have seen in the war.” The place was Batavia’s Koningsplein Railway Station. The face was that…

It is hot in Europe, in the Netherlands the thermometer rises to tropical temperatures. At The Hague, retired Dutch colonials got out their old tropical outfits, relics of Java days.

In London, where any temperature above 80° is called a heat wave, it was so hot last week that ten extra waiters were engaged to serve cooling drinks to perspiring legislators in the House of Commons terrace restaurant. A woman fainted from heat in a Gravesend bus and, as her…

A 139-year old sunken ship before the coast of Terschelling was dredged for gold bars. When found, flags went up all over the Dutch island.

When the Lutine bell, hung at the entrance to Lloyd’s underwriting room in Leadenhall Street, London, rings once, it signifies bad news for ship brokers.

When the bell rings twice, it means that a ship listed as lost or overdue has been at last reported. One day last week the…

In good Queen Wilhelmina’s Netherlands, sharpshooting soldiers and crunching tanks were needed fortnight ago to crush Communist riots at Amsterdam, where eight died.

Anything but placid these days are good Queen Wilhelmina’s Netherlands. Sharpshooting soldiers and crunching tanks were needed fortnight ago to crush Communist riots at Amsterdam where eight died and an old deaf woman went down with two bullets in her back (TIME, July 16). Last week more threats of disturbance in…

The Waterler Peace Prize didn’t go to a Dutchmen, as stipulated, but Sir Eric Drummond, secretary general of the League of Nations.

To the Government of Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina the sum of more than half a million florins ($220,000) was left by Her Majesty’s loyal subject Banker Johan Gerard Daniel Waterler with two stipulations:

1) If the Royal Government “should not find itself in a suitable position” to award the income from this…

Some 500 adolescents assembled at Eerde, in the Netherlands, for the first World Youth Peace Congress.

The placid and usually reclining cows of Holland seem like living symbols of Peace. They gave of their milk, last week, to refresh and quench the thirst of some 500 non-tippling adolescents, who assembled at Eerde, in the Netherlands, for the first World Youth Peace Congress.

Delegates representing the Communist Youth…