--- title: 'De Telegraaf, 14 November 1918: "De Troelstra-revolutie ''Made in Germany''"' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/de-telegraaf-troelstra-made-in-germany-1918/ description: Front page of an Amsterdam daily three days after Troelstra's 12 November 1918 parliamentary call for power to pass to the workers. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) **Content note:** Front-page headline attributing the 1918 Dutch socialist revolution attempt to Germany. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was) [![De Telegraaf, 14 November 1918: "De Troelstra-revolutie 'Made in Germany'"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/de-telegraaf-troelstra-made-in-germany-1918.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/de-telegraaf-troelstra-made-in-germany-1918.jpg) # De Telegraaf, 14 November 1918: "De Troelstra-revolutie 'Made in Germany'" Front page of an Amsterdam daily three days after Troelstra's 12 November 1918 parliamentary call for power to pass to the workers. The stacked lead headlines demand that the Ruys cabinet go and attribute the "Troelstra revolution" to Germany in a standalone line, "Made in Germany", set in quotation marks, above a report of unrest in Amsterdam. ## Text on the object Original (Dutch) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` DONDERDAG 14 NOVEMBER 1918. — OCHTENDBLAD. — TWEE BLADEN. No. 10.295. 26ste JAARGANG. De Telegraaf — HET MEEST VERSPREIDE GROOTE DAGBLAD waarin opgenomen de „Amsterdamsche Courant" (299e Jaargang). F. H. J. HOLDERT, Directeur. NEDERLAND EN DE REVOLUTIE. HET AARZELENDE MINISTERIE. HET KABINET RUYS MOET WEG. SNELLE HERVORMINGEN. DE TROELSTRA-REVOLUTIE „MADE IN GERMANY". [E]RNSTIGE ONLUSTEN IN AMSTERDAM. [E]EN MINISTERIE VAN DE [D]AAD NOODZAKELIJK. [middle column] DE TWEEDE KAMER. VROUWENKIESRECHT EN NIEUWE VERKIEZINGEN. RADICALE HERVORMING. DE S.D.A.P. VERDE[illegible]. [right-hand columns, sub-headings] MADE IN GERMANY. — EEN STELSEL VAN TYRANNIE. — VERDEELDHEID ONDER DE SOCIALISTEN? — Mr. TREUB ACHT REVOLUTIE OVERBODIG. — WIJNKOOP CONTRA TROELSTRA — EEN MOTIE VOOR HERVORMINGEN. — HET PROGRAM VAN Mr. TREUB. ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` THURSDAY 14 NOVEMBER 1918. — MORNING EDITION. — TWO SHEETS. No. 10,295. 26th YEAR. De Telegraaf — THE MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED LARGE DAILY, incorporating the "Amsterdamsche Courant" (299th year). F. H. J. HOLDERT, Director. THE NETHERLANDS AND THE REVOLUTION. THE HESITATING MINISTRY. THE RUYS CABINET MUST GO. SWIFT REFORMS. THE TROELSTRA REVOLUTION "MADE IN GERMANY". SERIOUS DISTURBANCES IN AMSTERDAM. A MINISTRY OF DEEDS NECESSARY [headline partly cut at the page edge]. [middle column] THE SECOND CHAMBER. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE AND NEW ELECTIONS. RADICAL REFORM. THE S.D.A.P. [illegible]. [right-hand columns, sub-headings] MADE IN GERMANY. — A SYSTEM OF TYRANNY. — DISUNITY AMONG THE SOCIALISTS? — Mr. TREUB CONSIDERS REVOLUTION UNNECESSARY. — WIJNKOOP AGAINST TROELSTRA — A MOTION FOR REFORMS. — THE PROGRAMME OF Mr. TREUB. ``` Masthead and headline blocks read from crops of the full-resolution scan; the first letters of two headlines are cut at the page edge and given in square brackets. The article bodies are not transcribed. Translation is literal, machine-made, and not checked by a fluent reader. [← Victoria Daily Times, front page (Victoria, B.C., 11 November 1918): 'Entente triumphs'](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/victoria-daily-times-entente-triumphs-1918-11-11/) [Americans All! 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