In last week’s first postwar Dutch election things were different. The Party of Labor, cutting across religious lines, won 29 out of a 100 seats.

A prewar Dutch election was usually a cut-&-dried affair; the Catholics voted for the Catholic party, the Protestants voted for one of the two big Protestant parties, minor groups shared scattered votes, and that was that.

In last week’s first postwar Dutch election, things were different. Premier Schermerhorn’s new Party…