Cort van der Linden, Pieterin full Pieter Wilhelm Adriaan Cort
Van Der Linden  ( born May 14, 1846 , The Hague, Neth.—died July
15, 1935 , The Hague )  Dutch Liberal statesman whose ministry
(1913–18) settled controversies over state aid to denominational
schools and extension of the franchise, central issues in Dutch
politics since the mid-19th century.   Cort van der Linden
gained passage in 1914 of an unemployment-insurance program and
began implementing a policy of neutrality and economic austerity
to deal with wartime conditions. His ministry sponsored
revisions of the constitution in 1917, by which extension of the
franchise and at-large elections universal male suffrage and
proportional representation were granted by the religious
parties in exchange for enactment of equal state aid to public
and denominational schools. After the Calvinist-Roman Catholic
victory in the 1918 elections, Cort van der Linden resigned and
was again appointed to the state council.