European CEOs from companies like Philips, Shell and Heineken talk about Japan and President Nixon’s new economic program and its impact on other countries.

View of America: Down and Out or Up and Punching?

On Aug. 14, the U.S. was a world champion boxer taking punishment in the corner of the ring. On Aug. 15, by one movement, it had gained the middle of the ring and room for maneuver —a true heavyweight able…

Liao Ho-shu, interim chief of Communist China’s mission, persuading Dutch businessmen to invest in China, went to the Dutch police saying he wants to defect to the United States.

It was 4:30 on a cold January morning, no time for a self-respecting resident of The Hague to be on the streets, and the desk sergeant at police headquarters was baffled by the middle-aged Chinese, clad in pajamas and raincoat, who stood before him. From the mixture of broken Dutch…

Common Market experience has accustomed many U.S. manufacturers to a “multinational” outlook. In a list of the biggest U.S. investments per country, the Netherlands ranks second.

WESTERN EUROPE

The most important development in international trade for a generation has been the flow of U.S. corporate capital to Europe. From $1.7 billion in 1950, it grew last year to $20 billion. The cash has not only fueled much of the postwar European boom but has created controversy…

A band of Dutchmen formed a group trying to influence U.S. votes in the upcoming elections. “The U.S. President meddles in our affairs. We should meddle in his,” says the organizer.

THE NETHERLANDS

By all accounts there are plenty of Americans who have decided not to vote at all in next month’s presidential election — and lots of others who wish they did not feel that they have to. Across the Atlantic, however, there is a band of Dutchmen who would like…

In the U.S. some Roman Catholic prelates have done all they could to discourage U.S. circulation of the Dutch catechism, a lively, undogmatic compendium of doctrine.

Catechism in Dutch

Some Roman Catholic prelates have done all they could to discourage U.S. circulation of the Dutch catechism (TIME, Aug. 18), a lively, undogmatic compendium of doctrine that reflects the most recent radical insights of theologians and scripture scholars. First the Roman Curia ordered a thorough study of…

The Dutch are unique in having invested more capital in than taken from the U.S. Their businessmen feel emotionally drawn to the U.S. more than to any of the members of the Common Market.

In its explosive expansion, the Atlantic Community is going to need the vertiginous sum of $1 trillion in new capital over the next ten years. The scarcity of capital is of course greatest in European nations, and the supply is of course greatest in the U.S. Thus, says the Atlantic…

The U.S., a nervous fence-sitter in the Dutch-Indonesian dispute, last week found its perch painfully uncomfortable. By trying to avoid offending anybody, it offended everybody.

The U.S., a nervous fence-sitter in the Dutch-Indonesian dispute over Netherlands New Guinea, last week found its perch painfully uncomfortable. By trying to avoid offending anybody, it offended everybody.

The U.S. troubles began with a quiet Dutch trooplift to West New Guinea aboard KLM commercial flights. As long as the…

The Netherlands and Indonesia are not even on formal speaking terms, the struggle for New Guinea has fallen to diplomatic “third parties,” largely the U.S.

As usual, the headlines out of Berlin were dramatic—an American commandant held up at the East-West frontier; a Soviet jeep chased by U.S. troops in retaliation. General Lucius Clay, the President’s special representative in Berlin, flew to Washington to demand that the local commander get more freedom to slug…

The Kennedy Admin. refused to send a U.S. representative to ceremonies of the installation of The Netherlands New Guinea’s first elected council, to show itself neutral in the controversy.

President Sukarno of Indonesia is probably the most footloose head of state since Richard the Lionhearted. Last week, as is his yearly wont, he took leave from his Djakarta palace and his lesser palace at Bogor, with its surrounding park stocked with small white deer, to fly off on a…

The U.N. committee urged the Dutch and Indonesia to solve the dispute of W. New Guinea. The U.S. abstained from voting, but the U.S. privately conceded to the Dutch to be right.

Lying north of Australia, New Guinea, an island the size of Scandinavia, is populated by an unknown number of fuzzy-haired tribesmen who have no idea of government. The eastern half of New Guinea is ruled by Australia; who should rule the western half was in grave dispute last week. West…

The U.S. occupied Dutch Guiana (Surinam), a demonstration of U.S.-Dutch collaboration. For the Dutch to protect Bauxite mines would mean withdrawal of troops from The NL. East Indies.

Franklin Roosevelt was feeling no pain this week. He had laid his plans, and his plans seemed to be working out. He had seized a country—Dutch Guiana (Surinam). He had temporarily stalemated the Japanese, at a time when every day’s delay before the Japs went to war constituted a…

The U.S. might find itself at war with Japan. Such an attack would give the U. S. Britain and The Netherlands as allies.

As Washington talked under its breath last week of the possibility that the U. S. might soon find itself at war with Japan, Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral James Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox conferred in…

In case the Japanese were to accomplish the creation of a New Order in East Asia the U. S. economy might be severely dislocated.

In December 1938, Prince Fumimaro Konoye, then Premier of Japan, made a famous speech in which he proclaimed that Japan’s aim was the creation of a New Order in East Asia. Ostensibly this meant that the Orient should be for Orientals, working in cooperation with each other; actually, it…