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Show iff And Learns People Losing in Favor in America AMSTERDAM, Oct. 10. Correspondence Correspon-dence of the Associated Press) Hollanders Hol-landers have been told by their friends in the United States that American opinion Is undergoing a change adverse ad-verse to Holland. To combat this a Netherlands society is preparing to send a special mission to America in the hope of more ffrmly cementing I the friendship of the two nations. ! Friends or Holland in Ihe United (States, according to the Handelsblad, which is regarded as the leading news- paper in the kingdom, have sent word to Holland that the feeling in America is that the people of the Netherlands seem "indifferent" to the tremendous issues of the war. ! Tho paper declares that the consensus consen-sus of American opinion is that the Dutch fail to appreciate the purity of America's motives, that the Hollanders Hollan-ders think of nothing but to keep out of the war and enrich themselves and that the loudness of their protests against any inconveniences they may have suffered as a result of Entente war measures is not pVoportionate to the moderateness of their complaints against Germany's crimes on land and sea. The newspaper freely admits that there is good ground for reproach. "Many persons in Holland." it says, "judge the war and the loading statesmen states-men of the various countries, espe- I cially America,' in a captious, presump- I tious, even cynical spirit, which is cal-; cal-; .lated to griove Americans sorely. America can justly expect Holland to believe In the good faitth of its declaration dec-laration that it entered tho war not from egotistical or selfish purposes but to free tho world from the cancer of militaristic imperialism. "Holland has not done nearly enough to enlighten public opinion In America regarding tho true feelings of the American people. Tho spirit of the 'Dutch people is largely misunderstood land misinterpreted abroad." |