De Jong was among the crew that the still unfinished submarine in May 1940 under the noses of the Germans from Rotterdam to Britain transferred. He sailed on several submarines. As commander of a submarine it down several enemy ships during World War II.
Peter Josef Sietse de Jong was born on April 3, 1915 in Apeldoorn, the son of a machinist at the NS. After secondary school he attended from 1931 to 1934, an officer in the Navy, where he remained in active service until 1959.
Between 1955 and 1958 he was adjutant to Queen Juliana, who described him as a “rare pleasant and uncomplicated man “. He even lived in the garden house of Huis ten Bosch.
In 1959, a few months after he was appointed Minister of Defence in the Cabinet De Quay, he became a member of the Catholic People’s Party (KVP). As Secretary of State he was responsible for the defense of New Guinea against Indonesian infiltrations.
Defense
In 1963 he was in the cabinet Marijnen Minister of Defence. He performed the same year the first major post-war reorganization of his department by. A year later, significant cuts over it. was also in the cabinet-Cals and -Zijlstra De Jong on defense.
He was prime minister from April 5, 1967 until July 6, 1971. The center-right cabinet De Jong was the first postwar crisis without the mandate of four years perfect. As prime minister he introduced the weekly press conference of the Prime Minister in 1970. That he wanted to prevent journalists him after the cabinet meeting called home
Video:. De Jong cabinet sworn in (1967)
popularity
Despite his popularity, he was pushed aside by his own party at the end of his term of office. A year later passed the cabinet Biesheuvel him vice-president of the Council of State.
The Young ended his political career as leader of the CSF in the Senate. He held that post from 1971 to 1974. He was active in all kinds of supervisory and management positions
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