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Willem Drees
Willem Drees was a Dutch Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1948 to 1958, leading coalitions of social democrats and Catholics. His governments rebuilt the country after the Second World War, oversaw the end of Dutch rule in Indonesia and introduced a state old-age pension, which made him widely respected as the father of the Dutch welfare state.
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