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Prince Bernhard, the globetrotting royal businessman accused of being on the take in the Lockheed scandal (TIME, Feb. 23), was charged last week with doing some palm greasing of his own. The Netherlands' leading newspaper, Amsterdam's Telegraaf, implicated Bernhard in a $12 million bribe paid 25 years ago to the late dictator Juan Peron and other Argentine officials to clinch a $100 million railroad-car contract for the Dutch firm Werkspoor. The bribe, which was authorized by the Dutch State Bank and approved by the government, also included the gift of a deluxe presidential train...
...editorial, the country's biggest newspaper, Amsterdam's De Telegraaf (circ. 670,000), blamed Foreign Minister Max van der Stoel for triggering the boycott when he called in Arab ambassadors at the start of the Arab-Israeli war to give them what they regarded as a dressing down. Though the Dutch were bound to suffer from their consistently pro-Israeli foreign policy over the years, many Dutchmen believed Van der Stoel's outspokenness - and Den Uyl's approval of Van der Stoel's views - goaded the Arabs to make an exam ple of Holland...
...applauding the earless Sundays," he said, "but I am very happy that so many take it in their stride . . . Look how beautiful a city can be without cars. This crisis is a good training for the things we will have to face sooner or later." To which De Telegraaf nastily commented: "Den Uyl's utterances are so much hot air, for Holland has virtually no influence on world politics. He should concentrate on governing the country...
...Daily Telegraph noted that the Nixon approach was "self-evidently protectionist and as such invites retaliation." Warned the Times: "The danger which has to be avoided at all costs is a general retreat into economic blocs divided by trade barriers and monetary restrictions." But Amsterdam's De Telegraaf praised U.S. policy: "Americans attack the cause of the illness. We Dutch should follow their example...
...Bernhard] on the throne, with her father and her paternal grandmother at her side." A quick check on the registration number of his automobile, said the Pictorial, revealed the man to be none other than Johann G. van Maasdijk, board chairman of the firm that publishes the influential De Telegraaf, and a palace chamberlain "in extraordinary service" to the Queen...