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...oath of allegiance to his future mother-in-law, Queen Wilhelmina, was sworn on the Parade Ground at The Hague last week by German and Nazi Prince Bernhard ("Benno") zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, handsomely accoutered as a Dutch hussar. His Highness was made simultaneously a Navy lieutenant and an Army captain, while his fiancee, Crown Princess Juliana, and her mother the Queen proudly watched...
...hands. He supports the village band, its school, its hospital and, indirectly, its whole population. In 1930, Hannes Schneider visited Japan for one month at $10,000 to teach its royal family, army officers and students how to ski. This year, two of his St. Anton assistants-Benno Rybiczka and Otto Lang-will start U. S. branches of the Arlberg Ski School at Jackson, N. H., Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier, in Washington. Still raging among expert skiers is the argument about the Arlberg v. Norwegian technique. In the U. S., where Erling Stromm, ski teacher at the Lake Placid...
...Newark, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Benno Bongart, called into court to explain the truancy of their sons Robert, 11, and William, 12, maintained that Robert and William were learning more at home than they had in suburban West Orange's Washington Public School. The Bongarts withdrew their boys in April when they heard that the principal beat one of them. At home Mrs. Bongart, a onetime Hunter College student, teaches them from old history and geography texts, prescribes excerpts from magazines and newspapers. Father Bongart, a mechanical engineer, teaches them drawing. Into court to testify that New Jersey teachers...
Half a million Dutch turned out in The Hague for the annual opening of the States General last week when they heard the rumor that Prince "Benno." the German fiance of Crown Princess Juliana, would probably be riding in the royal coach...
Actually discreet Prince "Benno" stayed home. Bands blared and standards were clipped to the ground as beloved Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands waddled in to read the speech from the Throne opening Parliament. As usual, the State paper was written by close-cropped and sagacious Premier Hendrikus Colijn. With Dutch industry now joining in the general world industrial pick-up springing from Rearmament. Her Majesty could and did sound an optimistic note as to Treasury finance and the general economic condition of The Netherlands last week, in sharp contrast to the bucket of cold retrenchment Her Majesty was obliged...