Articles on Holland (Nederland) in TIME (1923 – )
Because of Dutch support of Israel, tanker traffic into Rotterdam, the world’s largest oil port, will be slashed 70% by the end of this month. The ban will be felt in the entire Common Market.
Like a great natural disaster, the oil drought caused by the Arabs’ cutback on production spread ominously through the industrial nations last week. Despite glaring signals of severe shortages ahead, leading consumer countries from Germany to Japan were in disarray. They often worked at cross purposes as each scrambled to…
Five middle-eastern countries extended the oil export embargo to The Netherlands for allegedly offering alternative transit facilities for Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel.
Throughout the cease-fire diplomacy of last week, the Arabs kept tightening their oil blockade of the West. Production cutbacks deepened; export embargoes spread. By week’s end it was clear that after the shooting stops in the Middle East, the U.S., Europe and Japan will still be facing a war of…