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...Hague last week, Finance Ministers and central bankers from ten nations paused during a two-day conference on international monetary problems for a banquet at Het Prinsenhof, the royal residence of William of Orange. Presiding as host, Dutch Finance Minister Anne Vondeling toasted his colleagues with an old French proverb: "Point n'est besoin d'esperer pour entreprendre ni de réussir pour persévérer [One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere]." Next day, by a 9-1 vote, with France's Michel Debr...
...Claus 'raus!" Asked Rotterdam's good grey Nieuwe Courant. "Can a German put flowers at our memorials for heroes he fought against?" Amsterdam's Het Parool objected that the future queen's husband "cannot be a man whom a large part of the Dutch people meets with reluctance." The Calvinist daily Trouw, which came out in favor of the match, was barraged with angry letters; though published letters against the marriage averaged 55% in most papers, editors conceded privately that the actual mail was nearer 70% against. A few orange swastikas appeared on street walls...
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Even in retirement at Het Loo ("The Grove"), she did not lay down the burden entirely. She had one wing of the magnificent 17th century palace converted into quarters for invalided Resistance fighters and refugees from Hungary and Indonesia. She painted, took walks, but no longer was she spry enough for bicycling. With her death, she had finally escaped from her earthly cage. And, as she requested, she will be given a "white funeral" because, as she wrote in her memoirs, it symbolizes "the certainty of faith that death is the beginning of life...
Died. Wilhelmina, 82, Queen of The Netherlands from 1898 to 1948; of a heart attack; in her small, out-of-the-way Het Loo Palace 70 miles from The Hague (see THE WORLD...