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Actually discreet Prince "Benno" stayed home. Bands blared and standards were clipped to the ground as beloved Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands waddled in to read the speech from the Throne opening Parliament. As usual, the State paper was written by close-cropped and sagacious Premier Hendrikus Colijn. With Dutch industry now joining in the general world industrial pick-up springing from Rearmament. Her Majesty could and did sound an optimistic note as to Treasury finance and the general economic condition of The Netherlands last week, in sharp contrast to the bucket of cold retrenchment Her Majesty was obliged...
...Throne. Without directly mentioning the Dutch Cabinet's fear that outbreak of a major war anywhere would be the signal for the Japanese Fleet to pounce upon Borneo and seize from the Netherlands Indies the most important oil fields in the whole Far East, the Speech of matronly Wilhelmina touched tidily upon the new defenses for the Netherlands Indies now being invested in by Her Majesty's Government. By 1040 the Netherlands Indies air force is to be completely reorganized with fast bombers and seaplanes as the main defense arm in addition to twelve new destroyers...
...quiet, patient insistence Premier Colijn has forced both Japanese and Dutch shipmen to agree upon preliminary peace terms and these will now be used by diplomats of Tokyo and The Hague in an effort to make a binding economic treaty between the Empire of Hirohito and that of Wilhelmina...
...daughter's engagement to Bernhard," came the full-rounded radio voice of Queen Wilhelmina, "is founded on mutual affection. I am highly pleased with the excellent qualities of my future son-in-law. He has already shown he is a hard worker...
...themselves completing an economic study of The Netherlands on which they have been working in recent months. In the best sense of the term, Prince Bernhard is a first generation "mama's boy" and Crown Princess Juliana is a second generation "mama's girl," her mother Queen Wilhelmina having been reared and dominated by the late autocratic Queen Emma of The Netherlands (TIME, Aug. 6, 1928). Normal court usage would have been for the Crown Princess to propose to Benno, but Dutch courtiers stated last week that he proposed to Juliana in Switzerland...