Henk Lunshof, a journalist of De Telegraaf, had thought of establishing a new news magazine since 1940. He was approached by Jan Pieter Klautz, director of the publishing company Elsevier, and the two secretly started preparing the establishment of the magazine.
The passage describes Henk Lunshof's ambition to create a new news magazine and his collaboration with Jan Pieter Klautz to make it happen in secret.