Word: biesheuvel
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Dates: during 1971-1971
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Royalty, like well-mannered children, should be seen and not heard. That is why naughty Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands was scolded and put in a corner last week by Dutch Prime Minister Barend Biesheuvel. The prince had sounded off in a newspaper interview about the country's system of parliamentary democracy; the Cabinet, he suggested, should be immune to parliamentary interference for periods of one or two years at a stretch. Said Bernhard: "The government could then really get down to some work without having to spend half its time answering questions in Parliament." The predictable uproar that...
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