Dutch Anti-Defamation League Closes

NEW YORK—Poul VanDerVoort, president of the Dutch Anti-Defamation League of America, announced Monday that his civil rights organization is closing due to a severe lack of defamation against the Dutch. “I guess we did a good job,” VanDerVoort told reporters. “This past year there was not a single ethnically motivated crime committed against a person of Dutch descent.” Despite a vigilant, constant effort to locate anti-Dutch sentiment, prosecute offenders and initiate a healing process, the league has found no such crises anywhere in the nation throughout its 18-year history. “A couple of months ago we thought someone had been fired from his job for being Dutch,” VanDerVoort said. “But we investigated, and it turned out he was showing up drunk.”