Word: wilhelmina
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...press conference next day would be crowded, grave, unrevealing -and it was, with about 250 correspondents filing to the White House through a bright spring morning, to note in their eleven-minute interview that Franklin Roosevelt seemed imperturbable, and to hear him express his sympathy for Queen Wilhelmina's defiance of the invaders...
Critical early rear-area fighting also raged in the bright tulip fields around The Hague, which the Germans bracketed with parachute parties in an apparent attempt to surround and capture Queen Wilhelmina and her Ministers.* One band was mopped up near Valkenburg. The Dutch troops with light arms and fast U. S. cars were directed to the "fallen angels' " landings by military and commercial radio...
...Grebbe Line, drove to the sea near Rotterdam, cutting The Netherlands in two. Crown Princess Juliana fled to London with her husband, Prince Bernhard and their children. Princess Irene, aged nine months, traveled in a gasproof box. The Dutch cause shook when it was admitted that resolute Queen Wilhelmina had fled to London, too, and her Government had left The Hague...
...them, driving the locomotive. With his father he visited Brazil and Egypt. He went alone to the Belgian Congo and wrote a report on it so thorough that it earned him ranking as his father's colonial adviser. Later he visited The Netherlands East Indies to inspect Queen Wilhelmina's colonial administrative methods. He prepared himself to unify his bilingual country by learning and speaking Flemish as fluently as French. More self-assertive than his father, he prepared his people for an era of change and modernization, led by him, when he said that the Belgian Constitution, which...
...western spoils? And what of the imperiled Netherlands, whose Dutch West Indies and Dutch Guiana (on the northern hump of South America) lie within 1,500 air miles of the Panama Canal? This week the State Department seriously considered a cooperative, Pan-American protectorate over these Dutch possessions, if Wilhelmina's land should fall to the Nazis...