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Extraterritorial Gladness. Sensible, blue-eyed, democratic Princess Juliana escaped from Holland in 1940 in a British destroyer and has been living quietly in Ottawa with Princesses Beatrix, who will be 5 next week, and Irene, 3. Her speed-loving, 31-year-old, German-born husband Prince Bernhard, an air commodore in the R.A.F., visited her briefly last spring. He flew back again last week. Said he: "I'll be glad if it's a boy, but I'll be very happy if it's a girl...
...suburbs of Ottawa, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands awaited the birth of her third child. If the child should be a boy, he might some day rule The Netherlands, but birth on British soil might make him technically a Briton, would complicate matters. Therefore to smooth the path of the Dutch succession, the Dominion Government last week decreed that during the hours of childbirth (expected this month) Canada will grant extraterritorial rights to the birthplace and suspend all its sovereign claims to that part of the earth under the delivery room...
Even before the war such freedom did not exist. One big reason was sheer military necessity, which made nations anxious to control the air above them. But another reason was simply trade jealousy. Thus, U.S. service to Alaska is dependent upon Ottawa's permission to fly over Canadian soil. Early transatlantic services dickered with Portugal for landing rights at the Azores. In the South Pacific Australia-bound Pan American was blocked 1,300 miles away at New Zealand until after Pearl Harbor. So far the U.S. has failed to permit TACA and British West Indian Airways to make scheduled...
...mile railroad from mid-British Columbia to Fairbanks, perhaps to Nome. Since last spring the route has been quietly surveyed under U.S. Engineer Colonel Peter Goerz. A Seattle steel company has bought up the rails from a half-dozen defunct railroads. Washington has discussed the route with Ottawa, and has considered buying a decrepit, 350-mile Canadian railway (between Vancouver and Prince George-although it does not quite reach either) which would fit into the new route...
Canadian-born Actor Raymond ("Abe Lincoln") Massey, veteran of World War I, reported for duty in Ottawa, was given a majority, assigned to the adjutant general's office...