Word: wilhelmina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Important Epoch. Said Wilhelmina: "I must accept reality, and though I know full well that man proposes and God disposes, I think that in the interests of you all and the Empire the government should be confided to Juliana, who apart from the wisdom of insight is favored by her age with fresh youthful forces at her disposal...
...almost down and the quiet purple dusk of the lowlands was rising in the east when the Queen spoke to her people. Housewives fixing supper put down their pots and men in cafés forgot their drinks; bicyclists in the streets stopped to listen at loudspeakers. Queen Wilhelmina's voice was tired and choked with emotion...
...little village of Putte, where he crossed the border, villagers crowded around his car, gave him a silver plate engraved with the names of twelve Canadian soldiers who had died there. The University of Amsterdam gave him another honorary doctorate. He was a guest of Queen Wilhelmina, Princess Juliana and Prince Consort Bernhard at Soestdyk Palace. The Netherlands' Parliament eulogized him as "the grand old man of Canada." Everywhere he went, children and grownups came out of their houses to wave and cheer...
...Wilhelmina's temporary absence (to do a little resting up). She chose instead to look like any old regular at a ladies' Thursday morning discussion group...
...General Dwight D. Eisenhower from King Frederik of Denmark went a bejeweled medal, the country's highest decoration, seldom given to anyone but princes: the Order of the Knight of the Elephant; from Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, a bejeweled, gold-sheathed sword whose blade bore the engraved leg end: ". . . in grateful memory of the glorious liberation...