Evening star., 1952-02-03

n processing
and preserving foods.
The schedule of this outstand-
ing group, all of whom speak good
English, is being arranged by Ken
meth F. Warner Of the Foreign
Relations Division of the Agricul-
ture Department. Their technical
conSultant is Col. Paul E. Howe,
nutrition expert of the Agriculture
Departments Bureau Of Animal
Industry. Col. Howe planned the
nutrition surveys which our Gov
ernment made on behalf of the
u. S. Army. notably in Japan,
France, Germany and Belgium.
Each one of the Netherlands
quintet riSked his life in ,indi-
vidual contribution to the under
ground resistance to NaziSm dur
ing World War II.
Head of the mission is cosmo-
politan DR.. M. Van Eekelen, di-
rector of the Central Institute Ifor
Nutrition Research and of the
Council for Applied Scientific Re-
search in the Netherlands. He
once evolved a central repository
for the concealment of Allied arms
in his area. To this day none
of the silent men who secured
them has ever given away the
place Of their concealment.
Was in Nazi Prison.
DR.. Van Eekelen's associate is
DR.. David A. A. Mossel, micro
biologist for the Central Institute
of Nutrition Research. Only 49,
DR.. Mossel carries a prison camp
number tatooed on his arm. In
termed in such horror spots as
Vught. Melck, Ebense, Mathausen
and Auschwitz, which was the
worst, he says quite matter OF
factly. II was lucky. Before I Was
liberated and flown back to
France and then to the Netner-
lands, the enemy discovered i
could be useful checking the
sputum of applicants for the
Luftaffe to determine whether
or not they were tubercular, so I
was kept on low sustenance diet.
just enough to keep strength in
my own body for the JOB ! was
directed to do"
DR.. Jacob Van Der Flier. man.
aging director of the nutrition de-
partment of Philips Roxane, one
of the largest vitamin D plants
and one Of the first to export it in
Europe, is at present a Neither
lands air reservist officer and
meteorologist with the rank of
captain. He was a pupil in the
air orientation school conducted
by Col. H. F. c. Holtz, the present
military air attache to the Meth
erlands Embassy and member of
the Netherlands staff mission With
the North Atlantic Treaty Organ
ization here. DR.. Van Der Fliet
saw active duty with the Neither
lands Air Force as a sergeant.
DR.. P. j. van der Lam, who is
a chemist. is justly proud of the
fact that his was the only factory
in Europe to develop the penicil-
lin process independently during
World War II. When the war was
over and their country was lib
Grated, it became one of its largest
commercial exporters. When the
Netherlands scientists heard over
forbidden radios the news of the
success Of DR.. Fleming's discovery
of peni" in, which he was giving
to the world, they had recourse to
reprints of his original scientific
articles in their own publications.
Then doggedly. although in con-
slant fear of internment in NaZi
prison camp or worse. they were
able to make supplies of penicillint
available much sooner than might
otherwise have been the case.
Food Expert Included.
Another member of this scien-
tific mission from the Netherlands
is Anton Bernard Gerard Grever,
a food technologist, who is the
managing director of United Can
Makers, Ltd. one of the two
largest concerns of its kind in Eu-
rope. 1t deals with the manufac-
ture of processed meats, fish and
other foods. In charge of the
management of his associations
chemical and meteorological re-
search laboratory. he also directs
its inspection and quality control
of processed bacon, meat products.
canned meat, vegetables. fruits,
fish and pickles.
These Netherlanders are eagerly