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...Thousands of Hollanders saw their possessions destroyed overnight. A procession of war stricken refugees, including hundreds of students like you and me, began to tread the road of desperate flight. To help these people, a committee has been organized under the presidency of Hendrik Willom van Loon. This "Queen Wilhelmina Fund" has a New England chapter under the presidency of Professor Auer of Harvard University. Contributions to this fund, will be used for the relief of Dutch refugees. Every Harvard student who wants to help my country in this, its darkest hour in history, is requested to send one dollar...
General Henri Gerard Winkelman, Commander in Chief of the Dutch armed forces, made the announcement in the absence of Queen Wilhelmina and Premier Dirk Jan de Geer, who had fled to England...
...rivers' mouths. But further resistance did indeed seem hopeless. Whole towns were bombed off the map. The flood water had not risen above the main causeway roads. Dutch glumness and anger at the surrender was directed chiefly at the Allies for not coming more strongly, Queen Wilhelmina for not staying...
General Winkelman carefully specified that the war was not over in Zeeland and Queen Wilhelmina named Admiral van der Stad to command all her forces there. The Dutch Navy-was still in the war, being mostly stationed in The Netherlands In dies. The non-surrender of Zeeland, land of shrimp-fishermen and antique churches, was important to Great B/itain since its deep channels are the only ones on the shallow, white-sand Dutch coast suitable for submarine bases. But by week's end this resistance, momentarily bolstered by Prince Bernhard's return, petered out as the Allies withdrew...
King Leopold had vigorously cultivated friendship and common interests with The Netherlands. He joined Queen Wilhelmina twice last autumn in trying to secure peace by mediation. Said he: "Side by side with Holland, Belgium stands." She joined him, meanwhile, with a Dutch preparedness program which, while not calculated to do more than delay Germany until Allied reinforcements arrived, was a wide departure from her unarmed neutrality in the last war. It helped cover Belgium's vital interests to the north. Wilhelmina was urged to adopt it by patriarchal Hendrikus Colijn, long her most trusted adviser. Last week the Dutch...