The sixth, and critical, winter of war settled upon Europe with chilling rains, hunger and uncertainty. Dutch citizens were rationed to 1,040 calories of food daily, less than half enough.

he sixth, and critical, winter of war settled upon Europe with chilling rains, hunger and uncertainty. It was different from any winter since 1939, for the focus of despair had shifted from German-occupied countries to Germany. But retreating Nazis left chaotic disruption, vital shortages, and something more portentous. Liberated Europe…

The sky of Holland filled with Allied parachuters last week. It was smooth and apparently initially successful—a rare thing for the first job of such a complex kind.

Rough-&-ready Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton had fidgeted for weeks waiting for the moment to arrive. Seventeen times since his small-scale assists on D-day he had drawn up the detail of tactics for a historic stroke: the parachuting of an Allied army, a force of truly army size, capable of…

From London a Dutch voice spoke to Dutchmen to sabotage whenever a chance arises. At home, Dutchmen were already busy and the underground remains strong.

Dutchmen doing labor for the Nazis in Belgium, France and The Netherlands: “Commit acts of sabotage whenever a chance arises . . . damage highways, railroads, waterways. . . . Your chance is here to do your part in the liberation of your country. . . .”

At home, Dutchmen…

Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands, escaped unhurt, lost two bodyguards, in a direct bomb hit on the house in which she was staying near London.

Ethel Waters was drawing record crowds last week to the same nightspot in which she first sang on Broadway 20 years ago (Cafe Zanzibar—then the Plantation Club). On her dressing table the husky, dusky chanteuse propped a framed poem,

Tell God About It. Excerpts:

O workers in the busy…

Without ceremony or circumstance, Wilhelmina marked the 45th anniversary of her coronation. On Radio Orange she said that full arrangements for the “hour of liberation” were made.

Without ceremony or circumstance, 63-year-old Queen Wilhelmina marked the 45th anniversary of her coronation. In London the Queen spent a Hausfrau’s day at home with her son-in-law, Prince Consort Bernhard, took routine spins on her bicycle.

At night, over BBC’s Radio Orange, she spoke to her anti-Nazi burghers across the…

Dutch doctors shut their offices and went on strike after they were forced to join a Nazi-created Chamber of Physicians.

Dutch doctors have forced a dose of political castor oil down the throats of Holland’s Nazi overlords. Furious because the doctors refused to join a Nazi-created Chamber of Physicians, the Nazis threatened them with penalties. Thereupon 6,200 Dutch doctors shut their offices, went on strike. They told Reich Commissioner Arthur…

In the heart of the Netherlands Indies American bombers successfully completed the second longest air raid for land-based bombers in the Pacific War.

It was noon, and the tropic sun beat down on placid Macassar, in the Celebes, deep in the heart of The Netherlands Indies. Macassar had served the Jap well as an inner base through which to funnel supplies to forward areas. Last week there were six medium-sized cargo vessels…

Nazi measure against Holland’s Jews (sterilization of Jews who marry Aryans) flamed the Dutch with anger. Roman Catholic and Protestant church leaders protested.

The kind, easygoing people of The Netherlands flamed with anger at the latest Nazi measure against Holland’s Jews; an order for sterilization of Jews who marry what Adolf Hitler calls Aryans. So did their churches. Last week Roman Catholic and Protestant church leaders drew up a stern joint protest, sent…

Underground tribunals sentenced 47 collaborationists to death. The NL. government in exile radioed instructions to stalwart Hollanders to resist the internment order by every possible means.

From conquered Europe came a spate of stories of sabotage and revolt. In themselves these acts did not threaten the Nazi regime, but they did demonstrate that Allied armies will not fight alone when Europe is invaded.

Yugoslavia. A German correspondent with Axis forces fighting against the Partisans wrote:

“Then…

After Queen Wilhelmina called for a free NL’s Commonwealth, to be democratically governed by all its people, Hitler appointed Dutch Nazi Leader Mussert “Leader of The NL. people.”

One week after Queen Wilhelmina went on record for a free Netherlands Commonwealth, to be democratically governed by all its people (TIME, Dec. 14), Adolf Hitler appointed Dutch Nazi Leader Anton Adrian Mussert “Leader of The Netherlands people.”

The new stooge-boss of The Netherlands is a frustrated little fellow who…

Over London’s Radio Orange, Wilhelmina told that The NL., The NL. Indies, Curasao and Surinam, would form a commonwealth and all have independence at home after the war.

Mightier democracies continued pussyfooting on post-war plans, but last week the squareheaded Dutch went on record. Their good Queen Wilhelmina flatly rejected Empire, plunked for Commonwealth.

Over London’s Radio Orange, solid Dutch Democrat Wilhelmina told her people and the world:

>The Netherlands, The Netherlands Indies, Curasao and Surinam, after victory,…

The Japanese reigned over the Netherlands East-Indies. Oil flowed towards Japan, and millions of Java schoolboys had to take Japanese language study and Nippon haircuts.

“It is difficult,” said the radio voice of Tokyo recently, “to tell you our objective in the south in simple words. I don’t know it myself.” Tokyo’s difficulty was suggested by news leaking out of Japan’s “Co-Prosperity Sphere”:

> The 550,000-acre Philippine sugar-cane industry, deprived of its U.S. market and…

Adolf Hitler could well agree with the Duke of Alba, Philip of Spain and Napoleon before him that all Dutchmen are stubborn. Evidence is given with events of the preceding week.

Not all Germans are bullheaded and overbearing. Not all Japanese are bucktoothed. Not all Italians pinch bottoms. But last week Adolf Hitler could well agree with the Duke of Alba, Philip of Spain and Napoleon before him that all Dutchmen are stubborn. The evidence:

>At least 80 Dutch patriots have…

Wilhelmina, residing in Lee, Mass. has impressed natives with her neighborliness. She went to New York to talk about the war.

Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, Princess of Orange-Nassau, age 61, the sturdy, solid, cheerful Queen of The Netherlands, has been living a quiet and well-regulated life with her daughter and grandchildren on a rented estate at Lee, Mass. There she has impressed the natives with her neighborliness. Once she climbed through…

A new movie has been released called Tulips Shall Grow, where the Nazi Legions are awaiting an uncomfortable fate.

Tulips Shall Grow (Pak; Paramount) is Puppetoonist George Pal’s (TIME, March 9) prediction of the fate awaiting the armored Nazi legions which overran Holland. Ninth of his series of cartoon shorts (substituting carved puppets and miniature three-dimensional sets for the drawn figures and flat backgrounds of the usual animated…