The Drees–Van Schaik

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, also called the First Drees cabinet was the

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of the

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from 7 August 1948 until 15 March 1951. The cabinet was formed by the

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(KVP) and

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(CHU), the

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Labour Party (PvdA) and the conservative-liberal

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(VVD) after the election of 1948. The cabinet was a

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and had a substantial

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in the

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with

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Willem Drees Willem Drees Sr. (; 5 July 1886 – 14 May 1988) was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands), Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (Netherlands), Labour Party (PvdA) ...

serving as

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. Prominent

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politician

Josef van Schaik Josephus Robertus Hendricus "Josef" van Schaik (31 January 1882 – 23 March 1962) was a Dutch politician of the Roman Catholic State Party (RKSP) and later co-founder of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and jurist. He was granted the honorary ...

a former Minister of Justice served as

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and Minister without portfolio for the Interior. The cabinet served during final years of the

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and the first years of the turbulent

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. Domestically the beginning of the recovery and rebuilding following

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started with the

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, it was also to implement several major social reforms to

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s and

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. Internationally the beginning of the

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of the

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started following the

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and the forming of the

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following the

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. The cabinet suffered several major internal and external conflicts including multiple cabinet resignations, the cabinet fell 29 months into its term on 24 January 1951 following a disagreement in the coalition over the handling of the New Guinea policy and the cabinet continued in a

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capacity until it was replaced with the First Drees cabinet on 15 March 1951.

Term

This coalition had a 76% representation in the second chamber of parliament. It had to have a broad basis for the change in constitution that was required to make the

independent, resulting in the new country

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(in December 1949). In 1948 a second politionele actie (litt: politional action, but actually a military intervention) was embarked upon, but ended under international pressure. The rejection of a VVD-motion over

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in 1951 led to the fall of the cabinet. However, no elections were held and a new cabinet was formed with the same parties, Drees I. In 1949, the Netherlands entered the

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. In the same year several alterations of the German border took place.

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