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...palace recently, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands received two of Holland's top newsmen. Editor in Chief Dr.Maarten Rooy of the Nieuwe Rotter-damse Courant and Robert Peereboom of the Haarlems Dagblad. Said the Queen: she was upset by press coverage and pictures of her and Prince Bernhard on vacations. Would the editors kindly do something about it? Rooy and Peereboom, both officials of the Federation of Netherlands Journalists, most certainly would...
...confidential letters to editors all over Holland, the two reminded their colleagues of an agreement that they had secretly signed five years ago. At that time, all Dutch editors agreed not to print anything about the royal family without prior clearance by the government. Apparently, some of them had forgotten, so Rooy and Peereboom thoughtfully enclosed new copies of the agreement to be signed again. But this time, they made the mistake of sending the agreement not only to Dutch editors, but to foreign newsmen in Holland as well. They also reminded them that stories about the royal family should...
...such breast-beating session Henry Holland, the U.S.'s new Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American affairs, finally managed to get a laugh from the glum Latins. Their responsibility, he reminded them, was not very different from that of the suitor who was asked by his beloved's father whether his intentions were honorable or dishonorable, and countered: "Do I have a choice...
...Exchequer R. A. ("Rab") Butler last week slashed away festoons of government controls that restrict sterling transaction?. Since the war, there have been two major classes of sterling owned by residents outside the sterling and dollar areas: "transferable-account" sterling held by residents of 18 nations such as Italy, Holland and Russia; "bilateral-account" sterling in 24 nations such as Brazil, France, Belgium and Japan. Residents of transferable-account nations could not spend their sterling in bilateral-account nations, and residents of bilateral-account nations could not even^use their sterling among themselves without permission from Britain. Butler last week...
...Early Holland, a landscape attributed to Pieter Bruegel the Younger (1564-1638), valued by Cleghorn at $2,000. It was probably painted much later, says Eckhardt: "I would not hang this picture in my own home or anywhere...