Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disgruntled Dutchmen settled down grimly last week to face the gravest crisis in the 45-year reign of their beloved Queen Wilhelmina...
...original $14,900,000 capital of The Netherlands Trading Society for exploitation of his Indies. Few investments have ever been more fabulously profitable or more tightly held. As the profits rolled in, the House of Orange has invested in nearly every good thing in The Netherlands. And Queen Wilhelmina never speculates but holds. Last week, therefore, Wilhelmina viewed with no airy royal detachment the appalling fact that one-fifth of The Netherlands Bank gold reserve had been withdrawn in the frantic scramble for gold produced by fear that Catholic Party Leader Professor Petrus Josephus Mattheus Aalberse might succeed in forming...
...Wilhelmina, who has reigned longer than any other living king or queen (45 years), let it be known that she said, "These are grave times," when receiving last week her great and favorite Premier, beak-nosed Hendrikus Colijn, bald battler these many years to keep the guilder on gold...
...understood that Her Majesty made him promise to keep the guilder on gold before he received the royal mandate. Next day Catholic Aalberse came back to tell Protestant Wilhelmina that he could not get a majority in Parliament. Gratified, the Queen again named Colijn her Premier...
Engineer Mussert has the stocky, powerful figure of Napoleon, the unruly forelock of Hitler, and his name begins with the same letters as Mussolini. If Queen Wilhelmina would let members of his N. S. B. wear distinctive "political shirts," Engineer Mussert has said that they would be not brown but black. He talks about installing in the Netherlands a version of Il Duce's Corporative State with buxom Queen Wilhelmina shrunk in political size to match peewee Victor Emanuel...