--- title: Foreword by Aruba's Lieutenant Governor for a Netherlands relief monthly, March 1945 url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/aruba-maandblad-foreword-1945/ description: Foreword page signed by the Lieutenant Governor of Aruba, urging readers to help 'het stervend volk van Nederland' (the dying people of the Netherlands)… section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Wartime relief appeal quoting the Cain and Good Samaritan Bible passages; no offensive content. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![Foreword by Aruba's Lieutenant Governor for a Netherlands relief monthly, March 1945](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/aruba-maandblad-foreword-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/aruba-maandblad-foreword-1945.jpg) # Foreword by Aruba's Lieutenant Governor for a Netherlands relief monthly, March 1945 Foreword page signed by the Lieutenant Governor of Aruba, urging readers to help 'het stervend volk van Nederland' (the dying people of the Netherlands) and quoting their cry 'HELPT ONS, HELPT ONS!'. It closes by contrasting the indifference of Cain ('am I my brother's keeper') with the mercy of the Good Samaritan, citing two Bible stories in the donation appeal. ## Text on the object Original (Dutch) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` ARUBA Maandblad uitgegeven ten bate van het " ARUBA HULP-FONDS VOOR NEDERLAND " (Aruba Relief Fund for the Netherlands) Redactie en Administratie: General Printing Co., Zuidstraat z/n., Oranjestad, Aruba. Woord ter inleiding Gaarne voldoe ik aan het verzoek van den uitgever van dit blad om het met een kort woord by het publiek in te leiden. Bewust van den grooten nood waarin ons volk verkeert, acht hy het zyn plicht om naar zyn beste vermogen mede te werken aan de leniging daarvan. Hy tracht dit nu te doen door het gratis verspreiden van een advertentieblad voor den handel. Alle initiatief ten deze is zeer te pryzen. En zoo komt hem een woord van lof toe! Moge een ieder, wiens belangen door de uitgifte van dit blad kunnen worden gediend hunne volle medewerking verleenen voor het welslagen daarvan. Moge het tevens een aansporing zyn voor ieder om op zyn eigen wyze steun en hulp te verleenen aan het stervend volk van Nederland. Voortdurend klinkt hun noodkreet van overzee ons tegen: HELPT ONS, HELPT ONS! Laat ons dan paraat zyn om te helpen als het uur van hulpe slaat. Laat ons niet onverschillig staan tegenover den grooten nood en het leed dat in Nederland geleden wordt. Laat de Kains onverschilligheid van: "ben ik myns broeders hoeder" niet de onze zyn, doch veeleer het groote mededoogen van den barmhartigen Samaritaan. I. Wagemaker Gezaghebber van Aruba. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` ARUBA Monthly published for the benefit of the "ARUBA RELIEF FUND FOR THE NETHERLANDS" (Aruba Relief Fund for the Netherlands) Editorial and administration: General Printing Co., Zuidstraat s/n, Oranjestad, Aruba. Foreword I gladly comply with the publisher's request to introduce this paper to the public with a short word. Aware of the great distress in which our people find themselves, he considers it his duty to cooperate to the best of his ability in relieving it. He now tries to do so by distributing free an advertising paper for the trade. All initiative in this regard is greatly to be praised. And so a word of praise is due to him! May everyone whose interests can be served by the publication of this paper give their full cooperation to its success. May it also be an encouragement to everyone to give support and help, each in his own way, to the dying people of the Netherlands. Continually their cry of distress sounds toward us from overseas: HELP US, HELP US! Let us then be ready to help when the hour of help strikes. Let us not stand indifferent toward the great distress and the suffering endured in the Netherlands. Let Cain's indifference of: "am I my brother's keeper" not be ours, but rather the great compassion of the merciful Samaritan. I. Wagemaker Lieutenant Governor of Aruba. ``` Original spelling kept as printed (y for ij, e.g. 'by', 'zyn'). A stray mark before 'van' in the Cain line is not reproduced. Translation is a literal machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader. 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