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Though committed to the policy of isolation in foreign relations, the Dutch nevertheless strongly adhered to the idea that their country was cast for the role of world intermediary. This idea became especially strong in the early decades of the twentieth century. Increasingly the Dutch came to rely upon it as one of the chief pillars of their national security.
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See the interesting lecture by Professor Huizinga given January 27, 1933, at the German Hochschule für Politik under the title “Die Mittlerstellung der Niederlande zwischen West and Mitteleuropa.” Professor Huizenga suggests that this easy accessibility may have had its unfavorable side in that it tended to stifle cultural creativity in Holland.
Vols. I and II, Utrecht; Vol. III, Lyon. 1717. An abbreviation of the work was published in Rotterdam in 1729.
De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625).
Professor C. van Vollenhoven, “Holland’s International Policy,” Political Science Quarterly, XXXIV, No. 2, June, 1919, pp. 193ff.
Van Vollenhoven in the article cited above states of Asser, “Holland’s international, as distinguished from her national, resurrection is almost attributable to him.”
Address as found in The Peace Conference at The Hague by Frederick W. Holls, pp. 55-57.
The First (1911-12), Second (1913) and Third (1914) International Opium Conferences.
Handelingen, Tweede Kamer, 1907-08, II, p. 491
Anti-revolutionaire Staatkunde, II, pp. 207-08.
See Anti-revolutionaire staatkunde by A. Kuyper, II, pp. 202-06.
See de Jong van Beek en Donk, Benjamin, History of the peace movement in the Netherlands Also article in De Nieuwe Gids, July and August, 1921, by H. CH. G. J. van der Mandere, “Een halve eeuw Nederlandsche vredesbeweging.”
See “Nederlandsche anti-oorlog-raad,” by M. H. CH. G. J. van der Mandere, Grotius Annuaire International pour 1918, pp. 71-101.
Holland News, Nouvelles de Hollande and Holländische Nachrichten
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Vandenbosch, A. (1959). The Hague as Peace Laboratory. In: Dutch Foreign Policy Since 1815. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6809-0_12
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