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Nigel Ashton and Duco Hellema (eds.) Unspoken Allies Unspoken Allies ANGLO-DUTCH RELATIONS SINCE 1780 Nigel Ashton and Duco Hellema (eds.) Amsterdam Universiry Press Deze uitgave werd mede moge!ijk gemaakt door het Ministerie van Buiten landse Zaken. Cover illustration: Cover design: Sabine Manne! / NAP, Amsterdam Lay-out: JAPES, Amsterdam ISBN 9053564713 © Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2001 Allrightsreserved. Withoutlimitingtherightsundercopyright reserved above, nopartofthis bookmay be reproduced, stored in orintroduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying,recording,orotherwise),withoutthewrittenpermissionofboth the copyright owner and the author of this book. PREFACE This bookisthe happyresultofanexerciseinAnglo-Dutchco-operationwhich had its origins in 1993, when, by coincidence, articles by the two editors looking at aspects of the Suez crisis of 1956, the one from the Dutch and the other from the British perspective, were published in the same issue of journal Diplomacy andStatecraft. Subsequentdiscussions confirmed the editors in the opinion that considerable scope existed to pursue comparative archival research in the history ofAnglo-Dutch relations. Their work was aided during 1996 by a generous grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Thereafter, during the preparations for the international conference on Anglo-Dutch Relations in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries held in the Institute of History at the University of Utrecht during March 1999, the editors incurred a number of further debts of gratitude. Firstly, they would like to thank both the European Affairs Departmentofthe Netherlands Foreign Ministry and the Research Institute for Culture and History in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Utrecht for their generous sponsorship of the conference and of the publication of this book. Secondly, thanks mustgotothe InstituteofHistory attheUniversity ofUtrecht for its generosity in providinga suitable venue for the March 1999 conference. Finally, the editors would like to thank all of the participants in the March 1999 conference, and the contributors to this book. This volume is a tribute to theirenthusiasmandexpertise,and totheirwillingness toworktothe thematic guidelines laid down by the editors. In all cases their work illuminates important new perspectives on bilateral relations between Britain and the Netherlands, based on detailed research in British and Dutch archives. Their efforts as a whole are a fine example ofwhat can be achieved through interna tional collaboration between individual academics and institutions. While acknowledging these many debts ofgratitude, the editors themselves ofcourse take full responsibility for the final shape ofthis volume. 5 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 9 THE COLONIAL FACTOR IN ANGLO-DUTCH RELATIONS, 1780-1820 17 Jur van Goor THE DUTCH AND THE BRITISH UMBRELLA 1813-1870 33 N.C.F. van Sas RELATED BUT UNEQUAL PARTNERS IN IMPERIALISM, 187°-1914 43 Maarten Kuitenbrouwer ANGLO-DUTCH RELATIONS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR 59 Marc Frey ANGLO-DUTCH RELATIONS AND THE KAISER QUESTION, 1918-1920 85 Nigel]. Ashton and Duco Hellema THE 'TOMMIES' OR THE ']ERRIES': DUTCH TRADE PROBLEMS IN THE INTER-WAR PERIOD Ior Hein A.M. Klemann 'A CERTAIN LiAISON IN PEACE': BRITAIN AND DUTCH SECURITY POLICY, 1933-1938 121 Remco van Diepen BRITISH PERCEPTIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS AND THE THREAT OF WAR, 1938-1940 137 Bob Moore 'GOODBYE, MR. CHURCHILL': ANGLO-DUTCH RELATIONS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR 155 Albert E. Kersten and Marijke van Faassen 7 THE NETHERLANDS, GREAT BRITAIN AND THE INDONESIAN REVOLUTION, 1945-1950 179 J.J.P. deJong DUTCH-BRITISH COMMERCIAL RELATIONS IN A EUROPEAN CONTEXT, 1945-1960 2°3 Wendy Asbeek Brusse Too CLOSE A FRIEND?: THE NETHERLANDS AND THE FIRST BRITISH ApPLICATION TO THE EEC, 1961-1963 223 P. Ludlow 'THE SECOND TRY': THE NETHERLANDS IN BRITAIN'S STRATEGY FOR EEC ENTRY, 1966-1967 241 John Young ANGLO-DUTCH RELATIONS DURING THE EARLY 1970S: THE OIL CRISIS 255 Duco Hellema POSTSCRIPT 273 CV'S 279 INDEX 283 8 INTRODUCTION During a conversation in May 1962 with Under-Secretary ofState George Ball - the 'Mr Europe' ofthe United States- the French Minister ofForeign Affairs Maurice Couve de Murville offered a fascinating assessment ofthe underlying similarities between the Netherlands and Great Britain. Considering the existing European Economic Community ofthe Six, he argued that ...as now constituted the Community was relatively homogenous. It consistedofContinentalpowersexceptfor one nationthatwas notso much a Europeanas amaritime nation. The Netherlands wasan islandin thesame sense that the United Kingdom was an island. The Dutch had never really been interestedin Europe; theyhad always been looking out over thewaters at other areas of the world. The Dutch, Couvewenton toexplain, 'were not Europeans- atleasttheywere not Continental Europeans - as were the French and the Germans'. The addition of another power of the same character to the EEC in the shape of Great Britain, therefore, 'was a point that bothered the French very much...'.' Ofcourse, the French Foreign Minister had a vested interest in his version of the shared national characteristics of the Dutch and the British. His conversa tion with George Ball took place against the background of President de Gaulle's attempts to block the first British effort to negotiate entry into the EEC. Still,there was a kernel oftruth in Couvede Murville's description ofthe Netherlands and Britain as European 'islands', looking outwards from the Continent to the rest of the world. This sense of a shared underlying geo strategic perspective is a useful starting point for any study of Anglo-Dutch relations over the course of the past two centuries. To draw out the strands of this shared national perspective further, and to playsomewhatironicallyonthe Frenchtheme hinted atin Couvede Murville's comments, one might contend that Anglo-Dutch relations during the period covered by this volume can be characterised as a study in 'inequality', 'frater nity' and 'liberty'. Inequality was the corollary of what was in essence a great power - small power relationship. Great Britain loomed far larger in Dutch 9

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This study brings together the expertise of an international group of scholars to survey the development of political and economic relations between Britain and the Netherlands from the Napoleonic era to the present day. It illuminates both the underlying refrain of harmony in international outlook,
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