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The city link with the
beautiful English University city Oxford dates back to1946 and belongs
to the oldest city links of the world! The idea for this twin city link
was born at the end at the end of the
second World war.
The initiators were:
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Dutch radiojournalist Albert
Milhado
(in the war working for "Radio Oranje)" Albert Milhado died in
2001 |
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and the English journalist Stanley Rouse
(later on the president of the Worldfootball association FIFA) |
Both believed that the very close (illegal) contacts
that consisted during the war had to been continued after the war. In
this way the terrible experiences during the war could be shared: to
cry together and laugh together.
After the war the "Landelijke
organisatie ter bevordering van het Engels-Nederlandse Sportcontact"
was set up.
This organisation twinned 45 cities in Engeland and the
Netherlands. The old university city Leiden was linked to the much
older university city Oxford. |
