various contributors, Punch, Volume 147, Issue 3825… (19th and 20th century)
“ Great consternation has been caused in Vienna on receipt of the news that, in view of Beethoven's full name being van Beethoven, and his origin Dutch, he has been removed from the list of belligerent composers and regarded as a neutral by concert-givers in London and Paris. A counter-movement has in consequence been started with time object of treating Beethoven as a hostile alien during the progress of the war. ”
