Do you all know what today is???

[Lefty]

Sheesh. You *are* good, since I had a hard time finding out myself. But I'll take your word for it.

Now, you want diet or regular?

[ellanoize]

You got any that Coke w/ Lime over there?

Diet...Me...I don't think so [img]wink.gif[/img]

[cherrysmum]

I really like the lime coke..I want one too *whining*

[cherrysis]

Put the lime in the Coke you nuts and drinkem all up!!!!!!!!!!
YUMMY!!!

[ellanoize]

[ellanoize]

***Lefty, You will have to translate this. It is the only photo I could find.***

Jan Eduard de Quay (1901 -1985)





Klaas Kornaat en Reinard Maarleveld in opdracht van Radio Nederland Wereldomroep



Geboren in 1901 in 's-Hertogenbosch in een Brabants katholiek milieu. Zijn vader was militair en bracht het uiteindelijk tot generaal. De Quay senior was zelfs bijna minister van oorlog geworden in het eerste kabinet Colijn.

De Quay studeerde psychologie in Utrecht en economie in Rotterdam. Hij specialiseerde zich in wat tegenwoordig bedrijfskunde ("de psychotechniek van het bedrijf") zou worden genoemd. Als adviseur was hij werkzaam voor de PTT en de firma C. en A. Brenninkmeijer (C&A). Na zijn promotie in 1927 werkte hij eerst als lector en later (vanaf 1933) als hoogleraar aan de Economische Hogeschool in Tilburg (de voorloper van de Katholieke Universiteit Brabant).

De Economische Hogeschool fungeerde als denktank voor de RKSP en de succesvolle hoogleraar kreeg dus ook naamsbekendheid in de Haagse politiek. Al bij de formatie van het tweede kabinet Colijn in 1933 was er aanvankelijk sprake van een ministerschap voor De Quay , maar uiteindelijk werd zijn collega-hoogleraar Romme namens de RKSP opgenomen in het kabinet.

Tijdens de mobilisatie van 1939 werd De Quay als reservekapitein in dienst genomen. Hij moest zich, vanuit zijn specifieke deskundigheid, bezig gaan houden met het op peil houden van de motivatie van de gemobiliseerde soldaten. De algemene opvatting was dat, evenals in de Eerste Wereldoorlog, Nederland buiten de 'wereldbrand' zou kunnen blijven door het strikt handhaven van de neutraliteit.

Na de capitulatie kwam hij, zoals alle Nederlanders die een min of meer vooraanstaande rol spelden in het openbare leven, voor de vraag te staan wat beter was: (tijdelijk) meewerken met de Duitsers of medewerking weigeren. De Quay koos duidelijk voor het eerste. Samen met J. Linthorst Homan en L. Einthoven richtte hij in juli 1940 de Nederlandsche Unie op.

[cherrysmum]

well Lefty???

[cherrysmum]

Don't you guys ever have any juicy scandals??...

[Lefty]

Aw jeez. That's a lot of translating. I'll skip the caption.

Born in 1901 in 's-Hertogenbosch to a provincial, catholic family. His father was in the army and even made it to general. De Quay senior was almsot Secretary of War in the Colijn (former prime minister, around the same time as Hoover and FDR) administration.

De Quay studied Psychology in Utrecht and Economics in Rotterdam. He specialized in what is nowadays knows as Economic Management (I couldn't possibly translate the old title.) He was an advisor at the (Dutch postal service) PTT and the (chain of clothing stores) C&A. After his promotion in 1927 he worked as a lecturer and later as a professor at the School for Economics in Tilburg (later the Catholic University of Brabant.)

The school functioned as a RKSP (used to be a catholic political party) think tank, and as a result the popular professor made a name for himself in national politics. When the second Colijn administration was formed in 1933, De Quay was almost made Secretary but eventually his collegue Romme of the RKSP party was made a member of the cabinet instead.

During the mobilization of 1939, De Quay was enlisted as a captian for the reserve. His primary task - keeping in mind his background - was to keep the morale of the mobilized army up. It was thought at the time that The Netherlands would remain neutral during this conflict as it had been during the Great War.

After the country had capitulated, De Quay had the same choice most people in the public sphere had: (temporarily) co-operating with the Germans, or refuse to. De Quay opted for the former. Together with J. Linthorst and L. Einthoven he founded the Dutch Union in July 1940.

And that's all she wrote. Kind of anticlimactic. What happened next? This is the first time I heard of the guy too. I know more about U.S. history than I know of my own. How sad.

And we have Coca Cola lime here too, but I never really developed a taste for it. I like Vanilla. But seeing as how the world is divided into coke Lime people and Vanilla coke people, I guess I'm alone in that.

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ September 15, 2005 12:56 PM: Message edited by: Lefty ]</font>

[Lefty]

Sure. How about a political assassination that implied our secret service? Or a plane crash in Asterdam, where the plane turned out to be loaded with illegal, yet government sponsored arms headed for Israel, and people died of radiation poisoning? Or what about a prosecutor that sends a man to jail of who he *and* the victim know he's innocent, but the victim is ignored?

We have lots of scandals. Usually ending in yet another change in government. Heads. Roll.