The Third Gerbrandy cabinet, also called the Fourth London cabinet, was the

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from 23 February 1945 until 25 June 1945. The cabinet was formed by the

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(RKSP),

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(ARP) and the

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(VDB) following the resignation of the Second Gerbrandy cabinet on 27 January 1945. The

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''(

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)'' was the last of four war cabinets of the

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in London during

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Formation

On 27 January 1945 the Second Gerbrandy cabinet fell after

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Jaap Burger Jacobus Albertus Wilhelmus "Jaap" Burger (20 August 1904 – 19 August 1986) was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands), Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (Netherla ...

(SDAP) was asked to resign by

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Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy Pieter Sjoerds Gerbrandy (born Pieter Gerbrandij; 13 April 1885 – 7 September 1961) was a Dutch politician and jurist who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 3 September 1940 until 25 June 1945. He oversaw the government-in-exile ...

(ARP) after holding a radio speech, differentiating between "wrongful" Dutch civilians (''foute Nederlanders'') and Dutch civilians who made a mistake (''Nederlanders die een fout hebben gemaakt''). However, because

did not discuss this with the rest of the cabinet, all Social Democratic Workers' Party ministers resigned in response. The

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continued until the installation of the Third Gerbrandy cabinet on 23 February 1945.

Term

Although the cabinet was officially seated in London,

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(RKSP) was already present in the earlier liberated southern part of the Netherlands in

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, where he introduced a temporary arrangement for

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and

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governments after the war. Emergency municipal councils were to be appointed by a separate electoral colleges. An important part of the administrative tasks in the liberated part of the Netherlands is executed under the authority of the Military Command by the Commander-in-chief of the

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General

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld , house = Lippe , father = Prince Bernhard of Lippe , mother = Armgard von Cramm , birth_date = , birth_name = Count Bernhard of Biesterfeld , birth_place = Jena, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Germany , death_date = ...

and Major general Henk Kruls.

Cabinet Members

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References

External links

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