European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                R in a dutch girl shows an american Soldier a portion of her Fertile country with its windmills and canals in this quiet country working Bard to rid itself of the scars of american visitors learn that the dutch Are Selling tulips though they had to eat the bulbs during the War american visitors to a Holland that was ravaged and gleaned and twisted by War find today a Beautiful quiet and it is a land where Dykes Holdback the where stretching away to the horizon Are Fields coaxed Back to greenness by the patient and indomitable spirit of the it is a land where this Spring the dutch have been planting Tulip bulbs instead of eating on the dinner table Are a grim reminder to most dutch of their starvation rations during the German when the dutch first discovered the value of the Price of bulbs people Learned to look Forward to the Days in which bulbs were part of the says a pre a aeration pamphlet published in preparation for the Allied one considered them As table delicacies and had Earnest conversations with ones neighbors As to the whether they should be stewed or now the dutch Are rebuilding their Tulip Fields As they Are rebuilding their at the Little fishing fleets return nightly crowded with the Days wooden sleds filled with pungent Gouda and Edam cheeses Clatter along cobbled streets on their Way to the Mammoth boat Yards and docks at Amsterdam and at Rotterdam Are Busy almost As before the wooden trademarks of hol land and inevitably a part of dutch folklore As taught in american one of that country biggest postwar the dutch need three times As Many clogs As the nations poplars will because the germans Cut Poplar Trees in wholesale the dutch will the faced with a clog shortage for five or until the Poplar forests in Zeeland and Helgo land have grown to thirteen years of though wooden shoes Are a scarce visitors still hear the Clack of clogs along the Brick Dykes and wooden shoes Are All a part of but there Are other things As Well most of whom see this country with the special services visit the with its Carnegie built Palace of the ass Cher Diamond cutting the National with its priceless vermeers and Rem and colourful Marken Island in turn the Page for pictures of americans in Holland 11