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...oath of allegiance to his future mother-in-law, Queen Wilhelmina, was sworn on the Parade Ground at The Hague last week by German and Nazi Prince Bernhard ("Benno") zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, handsomely accoutered as a Dutch hussar. His Highness was made simultaneously a Navy lieutenant and an Army captain, while his fiancee, Crown Princess Juliana, and her mother the Queen proudly watched...
...London paper of largest circulation, Baron Beaverbrook's Daily Express, carried a leering rumor from The Hague that in the Royal Gardens "someone did catch a glimpse" of the Crown Princess and her fiance, Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (TIME, Dec. 7 et ante}, "just at a moment when the Prince put his arm around the Princess's neck and kissed her." The "someone" who observed the engaged couple may have been Queen Wilhelmina herself or any other Dutch chaperon for all the Daily Express appeared to know, but Lord Beaverbrook's paper carried the story...
...Minister, Dr. Halvdan Koht, had taken such precautions as he could. When the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, of which he was a member, appeared likely to pick Carl von Ossietzky, Dr. Koht resigned from the committee. Into his office last week raged the German Minister to Sweden, Prince Viktor zu Wied. To his heated protests Dr. Koht replied, "The Norwegian Government is not responsible. You may address yourself to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee." Next morning Nazi newspapers featured "this Norwegian insult," declared that in any case Ossietzky will have to surrender his $40,000 to the German Government, which...
Engaged. Princess Alexandrine-Louise of Denmark, 21, niece of Denmark's Christian X and Norway's Haakon VII, second cousin of Edward VIII; and Count Luitpold zu Castell-Castell of Bavaria, 31; in Copenhagen. Palace gossip had reported her a possible match for Edward VIII...
Prince (to Mrs. Jarrett's escort): Die junge Frau ist zu komisch...