The Daily Gate City And Constitution Democrat

The Dutch people long for a league of nations which would protect small countries against greedy and powerful neighbors such as Germany was in 1914, Cremer said. A most significant meeting will occur Friday, when the new Dutch minister confers with the present minister. Holland is on the eve of closer unity with America and the allies. Some form of freedom of the seas must be evolved to meet the needs of small nations like Holland which have extensive colonial enterprises. Holland is looking to President Wilson for a just solution of this problem. Holland is probably as bad off for food as Belgium, having been under heavy blockade for four years without such relief as Belgium received through the Hoover commission. Menace of Germany's mailed fist toward Holland was scarcely removed when the Bolsheviki began their activity in Holland. Revolution was threatened for a brief moment, but the Dutch people, who have had democratic freedom for many years, shifted to middle ground and are now apparently standing firm against the Bolsheviki firebrands. Minister Cremer is strongly in sympathy with the allied cause, his acquaintance with England and America being very extensive. He is married to an English woman and has spent much time in English-speaking lands. Holland, Minister Cremer believes, is the place for the organization of a league of nations, The Hague having been the seat of two important conferences looking to this event. A third conference was scheduled for 1915, but the war interfered. Preparations have been going on meanwhile and the vast international law libraries at The Hague are in readiness for the world conclave when it decides to meet.