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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...enough position or prestige to arouse in Dutch breasts the animosity risked by a Prince Consort from a foreign land who must always be more or less suspect of trying to influence his wife and Queen. For undertaking cheerfully this thankless role Prince Benno, by act of the Dutch Parliament, is expected to be invested on his marriage with the rank of Prince of The Netherlands and allotted the modest civil list as Prince Consort of 200,000 florins ($136,000) per year. Britain's Queen Victoria, who proposed to her Albert, secured for him as Prince Consort, after...
...opposed and vituperated by Communist candidates. Today this stocky, muscular anti-Communist with hands rough from manual work stands in France against Capitalist "big business" against Marxist ''class war," for ardently nationalist French "trust busting" and for a French application of "corporativism"-i. e., a Parliament whose members each represent a guild or unit in the national economy, a plumber being the deputy of plumbers, etc. Thus far jobless middle class youths have been his chief recruits, for the French bourgeoisie are beginning to think that the more or less aristocratic Croix de Fen of Col. null...
Next thing Greeks knew their Dictator gave out a long statement in which for the first time he announced that he will "never" hold elections for another Greek parliament. General Metaxas said' last week that the Socialist & Communist trade unions which he has done his best to smash "will no longer be tolerated" and that the State will set up a paternal form of worker organization...
...Labor in Greece had declared their formal opposition. The strike was supposed to be in protest against a royal decree under which in Greece arbitration of all labor disputes has now been made compulsory. Just before midnight Premier Metaxas successfully scotched a strike by proclaiming martial law throughout Greece. Parliament was dissolved, the Cabinet omitting to proclaim when elections would take place. Liberals felt that King George had, by signing the necessary papers, made General Metaxas his Dictator...