On the brand new liner Nieuw Amsterdam, the U. S. travelers for whom she was frankly designed found the art of The Netherlands at its niftiest.

The two most potent advertisements of national craftsmanship are the modern World’s Fair and the modern superliner. Three years ago the French Line launched the vastly chic Normandie as one of France’s supreme artistic achievements and somewhat incidentally as a ship. Cunard White Star’s vastly smart Queen Mary is supposed…

New Amsterdam is the newest air-conditioned flagship of the Holland-America Line.

Oslofjord, Though Norway’s merchant marine is fourth biggest on the seas, the navy that defends it has a total personnel of 1,200, includes but four battleships. Nevertheless, Norway announced last week that the new flagship of its merchant marine, the Oslofjord, is a peace ship and inconvertible to war purposes…