Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Dutch low by lasting exactly two days and seven hours. Last June Calvinist Dr. Colijn was compelled to resign when his old-fashioned financial and social policies split the coalition between his Anti-Revolutionary Party and the progressive Catholics. After a month of Cabinet stasis Queen Wilhelmina's Favorite was back again with a museum collection of Ministers. The Catholics and Socialists promptly sent them back to gather more dust...
Stanchest supporter of Dutch Premier Dr. Hendrikus Colijn is his soverign, Queen Wilhelmina. Dr. Colijn is a devout Calvinist and a churchman who knows his Bible backwards and forwards. Her Majesty is the apotheosis of Protestantism e conservative, strong-willed Premier believes in balanced budgets, light taxes and a strong currency even in these days of cockeyed national finances; this seems the essence of good sense to the thrifty Queen...
...Queen Wilhelmina gave her aged favorite a free hand in forming a new Cabinet, but the Catholics would not cooperate and an alliance between Anti-Revolutionaries and Socialists was unthinkable. After three tries he gave up. The Queen asked conservative Catholic Dr. Dionysius A. P. N. Koolen to see what he could do, but even his own party was lukewarm in its support. Last week it was Dr. Colijn's turn again, and he finally produced a Cabinet of hoary oldsters, former Cabinet members and long-pensioned colonial officials. The new Government represents but a small section of Parliament...
...certifying their freedom from the disease. But throughout Europe, though Italians feared late rains would cause wheat crop rust and Belgians that late fro.st would damage their potatoes, news turned on word of health rather than richness, movement more than stagnation, growth and not decay. Sunny days attended Queen Wilhelmina's visit to the Liege Exposition in Belgium, where Wuthering Heights packed them in and unemployment dropped 3,000 in a month. In Tallinn, walled capital of Estonia, night clubs were open all night; in Kiev, at the Park of Culture and Rest, huge, heavy-looking trees brooded over...
...week, as reports of Air Force and troop concentrations in western Germany rolled in, Premier Hendrikus Colijn decided not to be caught napping. Dutch defense plans are to block invaders by blowing up the dikes and flooding one-third of the country, but this takes time to organize. Queen Wilhelmina ordered border battalions mustered to full strength to forestall possible German seizure of the vital sluice gates. Machine guns were placed along the border and reservists were ordered ready for instant service. Harbors and roads were mined. Amsterdam's great commercial airport was commandeered by the Government and heavy...