biography
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Heuven Goedhart, Gerrit Jan van
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pronunciation:
[van hoefen khooth
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| male
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| lived:
| (1901–56)
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| biography:
| Dutch journalist and politician, born in Bussum, W Netherlands. He studied law at Leiden, and in 1925 became editor of DeTelegraaf and later Het Utrechtse Nieuwsblad (1933–40). Fiercely anti-Nazi, he resigned in 1940 and went underground. He then worked on Het Parool. In spring 1944 he managed to get to England through Spain with much useful information on the resistance and the state of affairs in The Netherlands. He joined the Gerbrandy cabinet in government in exile as minister of justice. When the government returned to the liberated south, he disagreed with the policies of the military government, and Gerbrandy took advantage of the opportunity to remove him and Burger, another socialist, from their portfolios. Gerbrandy became editor-in-chief of Het Parool (1945), entered parliament (Partij van de Arbeid) (1947–51), and was UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1951). In 1954 the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to his office in Geneva. |
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