Word: wilhelmina
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...years that motherly monarch, Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, has driven in a gilded coach under the tree-lined streets of The Hague to open her Parliament. Last week for the first time in 33 of those years she did not have the comfortable figure of the Prince Consort, Henry, Duke of Mecklenburg, beside...
Never one to dodge an unpleasant fact is Queen Wilhelmina, whose speeches from the throne have sounded a descending scale of pessimism ever since 1930. While other countries have cut their debts by the simple device of inflating currency. Holland sticks tenaciously to its gold florin. Both in Amsterdam and Rotterdam rifles have cracked this summer as Dutch unemployed rioted against cutting their dole to an average of $6 per unemployed family per week. Thus spoke the Queen...
...preparing to balance the 1935 budget by painful slices of 93,000,000 guilders ($63,000,000) in expenditures, but even so Holland was ready to spend $8,240,000 for new ships for the East Indian Navy. A few would not stay silent. No sooner had Queen Wilhelmina sunk back on her plush throne than three Communist Deputies rose before their horrified colleagues to shout objections. Hustled from the room, they were promptly arrested...
Back to her comfortable little Huis Ten Bosch ("House in the Woods") drove gloomy Queen Wilhelmina, having made no mention of the one bit of news all Holland is waiting for: the engagement of apple-cheeked Crown Princess Juliana to Prince Bertil, third son of Sweden's Crown Prince...
Every Dutchman fears that Japan may some day seize the large island oil reserves of Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Ceram in the Netherlands Indies. Last week Dutch planters and oil men rejoiced to learn that Queen Wilhelmina is resolved to defend them to the last. Dutch Defense Minister Laurentius Nicolas Deckers, orating before the Dutch Parliament, declared that Japan will never dare to send more than one-tenth of her fleet to attack Borneo which is 3,000 miles from Japan...