Outline of The Netherlands - History of The Netherlands

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“American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.”
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“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
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“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kow-tow before any United States pro-consul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.”
—Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (1909–1989)