Based on the available figures and on guesses TIME says the Netherlands has “nothing now” available to NATO. There is astiff opposition to military spending at expense of welfare.

This is a full U.S. infantry division (Pennsylvania’s 28th, National Guard). How many such divisions can the Western allies muster against Russia’s 175 divisions? Despite Eisenhower’s reluctance to give a specific answer, some facts & figures are available. The following is a catalogue of the twelve NATO nations’ ground strength,…

At 6:58 p.m. on May 14, The Netherlands was told she had capitulated, General Winkelman announced.

The little Dutch boy who saved his country by plugging the dike with his fist was missing last week. His duty this time would have been to blow up the Moerdijk Bridge, longest on the Continent, connecting Rotterdam and the heart of The Netherlands with south Holland across the…

Round-up information in the neutral European nations. In The NL. the earth was hard as brick; canals and flooded lands, which Holland counts on to defend her, were sheets of ice.

Late last August Europe went through its last great pre-war crisis—terminated by war in Poland and the west. Late last November Europe went through another less spectacular crisis—terminated by war in Finland. Last week Europe was in the midst of another crisis.

The seriousness of the latest crisis…