The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-08-30
NEWSPAPERS Want
EARLY ELECTIONS
HELD IN HOLLAND
BY BILL BONI

AMSTERDAM, Aug. %. -lq-.
recommendation by the Natior.a,
Advisory Council to the schsrua ai
horn government that the Neth es'
land elections be held at tho r'
latest in April, again points IN Wy
paradox Of present governmen a.e
and political status in connts s.
which always has been in tho +n~
front among democracies and ' Wy,
after nearly four months Ths se'
ton, still lacks damocracv,s D era
essentlal-a popular government t'S'
Under the MAC recommend.t;.
elections for the lower house on,
Tor provincial parliaments ,r ana
which Upper House membsr, A yin
chosen, whould be held in Ar ar1
following municipal elections ,na
gested for December. %
One member of the Council \,
s ILLS WV eoitor OF the Calvi II
newspaper Treuw, made an aIt'r.
nate suggestion that, to acbier,
quicker results, ration books sborls
be used as electoral lists, in which,
al elections could be completed in
January. al
The confused state of the Voters,
registers is only one of the tscS.
nical difficulties which have de-.
layed elections. Not all displacsd
Dutchment have been repatristeS
and identity cards purposely were
falsified during the years Of Maj
occupation. There is a shortage NJ
transport and lack of adeouats
communications.
There has been no doubt abor,
the democratic principles Of ths
government Premier schermer.
horn and several other members
were active in the resistance move.
ment-but the clamor for elections
has been gaining strength in ii,
press and the government is bound
to heed it as rapidly as possible
| However, there is reason to doubt
whether the man in the street, "
the present, is much concernd over
anything beyond acquiring the nee.
essities of life and the govern.
ment's rumored intention to free
tens of thousands of interned su.
spected Dutch Nazis and collabO.
rationists. This action would be
taken on the ground there are not
sufficient facilities to keep them
all in detention during the winter.
| The Communist newspaper De
Waarheid proclaimed vehemently
that the government planned to re.
lease $4,000 of an interned 10000,
but Schermerhorn denied any such
figure was in a government plan
Despite his denial, many former
underground groups and other Or.
CARNATIONS have sent him tele.
grams of protest and there have
been public demonstrations on a
violent, if small, scale against some
Dutch Nazis who were allowed TO
return to their Amsterdam homes
Schermerhorn has announced
that the government intends to re.
lease suspects only temporarily
Re-arrests then would be made ac'
cording to principles of constl'
tutional state.
The first session of the Extra
ordinary Tribunal at the Hague
brought the demand of death SEN
fences for collaboration in two in
stances and the National Advisory
Council, which consists one-thrd
of representatives of the resls'
lance movements and two-thirds Of
members of old political parties
announced it would draft a recon-
mendation to the government IN
connection with its plan to set free
political prisoners.
Meanwhile the political EQUATION
is confused further by the fact
that, with the exception of Inc
Communists, no political party has
' made public it's intentions or pro
: gram.