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Show Nazis Fail to Convert Dutch to 'New Order' LONDON. After more than 2Vi years of German occupation, the Dutch Nazi party has not yet been able to enlist any significant support sup-port within the country or even to unify its own ranks. Max Blokzijl, chief of the Dutch Nazi Press Guild, admitted in an article published in the German newspaper West Deutch-er Deutch-er Beobachter. Blokzijl asserted that the opposition opposi-tion to the Nazis was not as determined de-termined as "radical and reactionary reaction-ary elements picture it." He declared: de-clared: "The reaction exists mainly in certain educated circles, whose members wield terror as a weapon to keep hundreds of thousands of workers dependent upon them away from the New Order." He claimed, however, that the party par-ty had grown from 30,000 members in 1940 to more than 100,000 now, although al-though its leader, Anton A. Mussert, early in December admitted that he had only 35,000 Nazi sympathizers. Expressing fears that the conversion conver-sion of the Dutch to Naziism would be most difficult, Blokzijl said that workers expecting social security benefits from the old regime and farmers sticking to old traditions could not be won over to the New Order, while teachers were equally "stubborn" and continued to reject the "New Ideas." He placed his main hope in the youth of Holland's cities, despite the failure of his own recent effort to recruit young party members in Amsterdam. Am-sterdam. He revealed that the Dutch Nazi Youth Storm numbered 20,000 - members. |