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The New Dutch Cabinet
Barnouw, A. J. | November 9, 1918 issue

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The article focuses on the State Courant, that published names of Ministers in the New Dutch Government. In a non-belligerent country, which knows not the glory but only the deprivations of war, a ruler has to expect slight recognition of his toil. The leading statesmen, honored for their service in the past, do not feel tempted by a power whose exercise can not add to, but will almost certainly diminish, their established fame. And so the country, deprived of the leadership which it might have claimed from the best of its sons, is forced to entrust its fate to the guidance of lesser men who, unchecked by the risk of losing a name not yet won, do not resist the spur of ambition.

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CABINET system; MINISTERIAL responsibility; WAR; FAME; LEADERSHIP; NETHERLANDS
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