Word: wilhelmina
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...Your gossipy footnote on Tjarda [van Starkenborgh] and his driver, on his visit to Queen Wilhelmina, which seemed to substantiate your error and TIME'S implication-that because of Tjarda's "flight" he had incurred the wrath of the Queen-creates a further erroneous impression. Tjarda was rewarded for his war services with one of the most important appointments in The Netherlands Kingdom, the post of Ambassador to France...
...sweltering, mosquito-infested streets did not say; nobody had wound them. Nobody collected electric bills, because the electrical engineers are Dutch and the company accountants Indonesian; they could not decide who should get the receipts. Batavia had two mayors, one Dutch, one Indonesian; two flags, one Queen Wilhelmina's and one Ir. Soekarno's; two currencies, neither of which could buy much, and two possible destinies: it might become the chief city of the first great Moslem colony to free itself from European rule, or it might come to symbolize the first wave of Asiatic nationalism to break...
...After Holland was liberated, Queen Wilhelmina gave Starkenborgh an audience in The Hague. He drove to the palace in his automobile, sent the driver back because he was sure the audience would last several hours; doubtless the Queen would have him to lunch. Much to his surprise the Queen ended the interview in 15 minutes. Starkenborgh went home by trolley...
...Great East," made up of Bali, the Celebes, the Moluccas, Dutch New Guinea and the Lesser Sunda Islands. These three autonomous areas would be linked as equal partners in the United States of Indonesia, and within two years the U.S.I. would be rated a sovereign power under Queen Wilhelmina...
George VI, whose Household Cavalry* participated in the liberation of Holland, got a handsome package of thanks from visiting Queen Wilhelmina: two high-stepping greys for coach duty, 30 blacks for the cavalry...