Articles on Holland (Nederland) in TIME (1923 – )
The bill to finance the Olympics is defeated. Catholic and Calvinist deputies joined forces and called the games “heathenish.”
A bill asking for a million florin ($400,000) appropriation to finance the 1928 Olympic Games, introduced last month (TIME, Apr. 6), was defeated by 48 to 36 in the Lower House of the States-General (Parliament) at The Hague.
Catholic and Calvinist deputies joined forces against the Liberal and Socialist supporters of the Government, called the…