Word: wilhelmina
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Johannes A. C. Fagginger Auer, Professor of Church History and Parkman Professor of Theology, has been made by Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands a member of the order of Orange Nassau. Professor Auer is a native of the Netherlands. He came to the United States in 1902, and, with the exception of two years when he served as pastor of liberal churches in the Netherlands, has been in this country over since. He has been on the Harvard Faculty since 1928. He is also Professor of Philosophy and Church History at the Crane Theological School, Tufts College, Mass...
Yellow Emperor v. White Queen. Conditions in The Netherlands are sane, as that term is understood by Queen Wilhelmina, who said in her last Speech from the Throne, "This country stands for sanity...
...Great Powers may not care a great deal what happens to or in the Kingdom of The Netherlands but the destiny of the white race may prove to be that of the Netherlands Empire. If the small yellow subjects of Japanese Emperor Hirohito succeed in filching away from Queen Wilhelmina's big white subjects the No. 3 colonial empire of the world, what about France's No. 2 colonial empire and Britain's No. 1? To Dutchmen, firmly convinced that they are sane, it was the supreme irony last week that Japan's determined and successful...
...income of the Netherlands Indies Government has fallen, it has sanely cut expenses to balance its budget. Out went most of the money for higher native schools. This has sent Indonesian youths rushing in droves to get their higher education in Japan, where they are told that Wilhelmina is a wicked old white millionairess and that Indonesia under Japanese rule would have to pay only a fraction of its present crushing, budget-balancing taxes. Even better, many Indonesians are now figuring out for themselves, would be self-rule. They babble ineffectually about "Indonesia for the Indonesians!" But native discontent...
...Hague last week clam-mouthed Dutch officials would not discuss "The White Front." Shushing all queries, they told the great and patriotic lie that "there is no crisis in The Netherlands now," added that the entire situation is covered by Dutch determination to continue applying the motto of Queen Wilhelmina's Royal House, "Je Maintiendrai" ("I will maintain...