On 24 January 1915, the Dutch writer Frederik van Eeden published a letter written by his close friend, the French writer Romain Rolland, in the Dutch weekly De Amsterdammer. In his letter to van…
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Themes: Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Letter; Intellectual Exchange
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Europe, French, internationalism, open letter, public intellectual, Rolland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Van Eeden, writer
In this pseudo-mystic poem originally written in German, the Dutch writer and famous internationalist Frederik van Eeden expressed his belief in the rise of a new internationalist world from the ashes…
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Themes: Poem; Newspapers & Magazines; Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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French, German, internationalism, Netherlands, newspapers, Poem, Rolland, Switzerland, Translation, Van Eeden
In these two extracts from Au-dessus de la mêlée, Rolland first discusses the rise of the Dutch Anti-War Association in October 1914, then moves onto the Association's translated manifesto…
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Themes: Neutrality; Language; Intellectual Exchange
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Europe, internationalism, Language, Neutrality, Rolland, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Van Eeden