Abstract

Holland Among The Lions

The history of Holland is along record of the continuous struggle between particularism, tenacious of its freedom, and authority, responsible for the public weal. In reducing the amount of unavoidable suffering to its minimum, the state may be able to turn its new controlling power to good account. The industrial world of Holland is beginning to realize this advantage of Government intervention. In the consolidation of national energy, industrial Holland has the good fortune to receive support from a Cabinet Minister who, by universal assent, is held to be the strongest member of the Government. This man is M.W.F. Treub, formerly professor of political economy in the University of Amsterdam, and now, for the second time, Minister of Finance in the Cabinet of Cort Van der Linden.