Willem Drees Sr. was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 to 22 December 1958.
Drees in 1958
Drees in 1908
Belgian Prime Minister Paul-Henri Spaak and Drees at a Benelux conference, 10 March 1949
Newly appointed Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Drees at the Ministry of Defence, 11 January 1951
Social Democratic Workers' Party (Netherlands)
The Social Democratic Workers' Party was a Dutch socialist political party existing from 1894 to 1946, and a predecessor of the social democratic Labour Party.
A plaque in Zwolle commemorating the founding of the SDAP
A political poster of the SDAP. It reads: The Reds call, strengthen the SDAP
A famous cartoon by Albert Hahn in the socialist paper Het Volk. It reads: "The whole machinery stops, if your mighty hand wills it so"
A political poster of the SDAP by Albert Hahn. It reads: "Sign the People's Petition for Universal Suffrage"