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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alive and well today are thousands of young Europeans who would likely have been corpses by now if War II had taken the course of unprecedentedly murderous War I. Meantime, one big plan for Peace II has been shaping up in Anglo-French minds on an unprecedentedly thoughtful and humane...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: A Better Europe? | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

As she grew older she grew fatter, even more conscientious. She gave up hunting and riding, took to the bicycle. She made it a daily rule to rise at 6 a.m., usually beginning her royal chores with an hour's work in the spacious garden at the back of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Major ripple on the placid surface of Queen Wilhelmina's personal life of late has been the acquisition of a son-in-law in Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, whose line has not enjoyed temporal sovereignty in the hilly little Principality of Lippe-Detmold since 1849. Nobody in The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

Fifteen years after Wilhelmina ascended the throne World War I began. The British blockade induced a grave food shortage. Trade was completely disrupted and the country was overrun with refugees. Dutch ships were sunk and by 1918 what ships still floated abroad had been seized by the Allies. Only bright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

The Dutch colonial atmosphere has long been widely hailed as far healthier than the British, but this reputation rests more on circumstance than on conscious planning. Unlike the British, early Dutch colonizers were not discouraged from marrying native women and no social ostracism came to them or their half-caste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Worried Queen | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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