Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clip-clap, clip-clap through the tidy Hague, good motherly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands clattered off last week in her State Coach to open Parliament. With her rode buxom, schoolgirlish Crown Princess Juliana and the Queen's fat but studiously self-effacing Prince Consort-Henry of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. A smart troop of cavalry gave dash to the corpulent Royal turnout. Loyal crowds bellowed vociferously not "God Save the Queen!" but that grand old Dutch cheer, "Hold the Sea! HOLD...
...Knights. In the peace and dignity of the occasion it seemed bizarre that here, in this very building, a little over a month ago, the leading statesmen of Europe staged that famed and furious diplomatic quarrel, The Hague Reparations ("Sponge cake") Conference (TIME, Aug. 5 to Sept. 9). Queen Wilhelmina rose and began in her gracious contralto to roll the broad Dutch vowels of her Speech from the Throne...
...ended, if not amicably, at least in a formal agreement by the Great Powers to adopt the Young Plan which will take the payment of German Reparations out of politics and put it on a business basis. "Great is our joy that the Conference achieved this success!" cried Queen Wilhelmina...
...invented, one of Her Majesty's islands in the Caribbean. Recalling that Curacao is but 40 miles from the coast of Venezuela and that the Governor General of Cu-null was kidnapped by Venezuelan filibusterers last spring and subjected to indignities before being released (TIME, June 24), Queen Wilhelmina said with resolute wrath: "It is the purpose of my government to increase the number of our armed forces in Curacao!" At present the garrison of Willemstad, the Capital, consists of four officers...
Finally, after Queen Wilhelmina's banquet, Mr. Snowden asked that the latest verbal offer of the Latins be put in writing. All that afternoon, all night, all the next day, Prime Minister Aristide Briand of France and his Latin colleagues toiled to document their offer, snatching only occasional catnaps, trying desperately to get the job done in time to have a few days' leeway for final dickering before M. Briand would be obliged to leave for the September session "of the League of Nations at Geneva...