Oorlogstijd Herinneringen en Indrukken

A former cabinet minister offers personal wartime recollections and impressions focusing on government responses: maintaining sovereignty and neutrality, mobilization, maritime neutrality, internment and air power; measures to secure food supplies including export restrictions, food laws and bread distribution; efforts to prevent and relieve distress through national relief committees, aid to foreigners, unemployment prevention and insurance; financial and credit policies, panic containment, credit for small businesses, stock exchange regulation and moratorium pressures; sustaining industry, coal, agriculture, fisheries, shipping and trade; and wartime public finance including loans and fiscal measures, concluded by reflective observations on administrative limits and the monarch's care.