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Wilhelmina, who has reigned longer than any other living king or queen (45 years), let it be known that she said, "These are grave times," when receiving last week her great and favorite Premier, beak-nosed Hendrikus Colijn, bald battler these many years to keep the guilder on gold...
...Colijn had his Cabinet's resignation in his pocket. The Catholic members of his coalition had grown restive on the gold issue, and it might be best to give Catholic Party Leader Petrus J. M. Aalberse an opportunity to form what would be The Netherlands' first Catholic Cabinet. Deeply troubled, the Queen, who is the Apotheosis of Protestantism, sent for Professor Aalberse...
...understood that Her Majesty made him promise to keep the guilder on gold before he received the royal mandate. Next day Catholic Aalberse came back to tell Protestant Wilhelmina that he could not get a majority in Parliament. Gratified, the Queen again named Colijn her Premier...
...living Sphinx of the Netherlands, crop-haired, eagle-beaked Premier Hendrik Colijn has brought Her Majesty's Government unscathed through Communist brickbat assaults and the worst of Depression only to face last week the "Dutch Nazis." For stanch old Dr. Colijn it was exquisitely embarrassing to have to explain to his strong-minded Queen, Nazi-contemptuous Wilhelmina, how it has come about that one of the Premier's own sons is a "Dutch Nazi...
Elections last week were for the Netherlands' provincial councils in which Premier Colijn's coalition has had a majority strength of 58%. Hitherto Engineer Mussert, much addicted to quiet maneuvering behind the scenes, has put up no candidates, saying "The N. S. B. is a movement, not a party." Last week when votes were counted the Colijn coalition strength was still a rock-ribbed 58% majority but other Dutch parties had lost to Mussert some 8% of the vote, thus giving N. S. B. 39 seats in ten provincial chambers...