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...London Colonel Bernhard Booth learned via the International Red Cross that his sister, Colonel Mary Bramwell Booth, head of the Salvation Army in Belgium, onetime leader in the West Indies, Germany and Denmark, granddaughter of Salvation Army founder General...
Christened. Princess Irene Emma Elizabeth, youngest (ten months) daughter of The Netherlands Crown Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld; before a distinguished audience of British and Netherlands royalty, including King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (godmother) ; in Buckingham Palace, London...
...dies. The non-surrender of Zeeland, land of shrimp-fishermen and antique churches, was important to Great B/itain since its deep channels are the only ones on the shallow, white-sand Dutch coast suitable for submarine bases. But by week's end this resistance, momentarily bolstered by Prince Bernhard's return, petered out as the Allies withdrew from the islands...
Juliana and her children, who had preceded the Queen, departed for the west of England, while Prince Bernhard returned to fight fellow Germans in Zeeland. The Dutch Ministers took up residence at London's Grosvenor House...
...Grebbe Line, after being blasted out of their Ijssel Line by German field pieces fired pointblank into their blockhouses. This week the Germans broke through the 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...