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Disgruntled Dutchmen settled down grimly last week to face the gravest crisis in the 45-year reign of their beloved Queen Wilhelmina...
...original $14,900,000 capital of The Netherlands Trading Society for exploitation of his Indies. Few investments have ever been more fabulously profitable or more tightly held. As the profits rolled in, the House of Orange has invested in nearly every good thing in The Netherlands. And Queen Wilhelmina never speculates but holds. Last week, therefore, Wilhelmina viewed with no airy royal detachment the appalling fact that one-fifth of The Netherlands Bank gold reserve had been withdrawn in the frantic scramble for gold produced by fear that Catholic Party Leader Professor Petrus Josephus Mattheus Aalberse might succeed in forming...
Yellow Emperor v. White Queen. Conditions in The Netherlands are sane, as that term is understood by Queen Wilhelmina, who said in her last Speech from the Throne, "This country stands for sanity...
...Great Powers may not care a great deal what happens to or in the Kingdom of The Netherlands but the destiny of the white race may prove to be that of the Netherlands Empire. If the small yellow subjects of Japanese Emperor Hirohito succeed in filching away from Queen Wilhelmina's big white subjects the No. 3 colonial empire of the world, what about France's No. 2 colonial empire and Britain's No. 1? To Dutchmen, firmly convinced that they are sane, it was the supreme irony last week that Japan's determined and successful...
...understood that Her Majesty made him promise to keep the guilder on gold before he received the royal mandate. Next day Catholic Aalberse came back to tell Protestant Wilhelmina that he could not get a majority in Parliament. Gratified, the Queen again named Colijn her Premier...