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...along the firing range where the Nazis used to practice. The last 25 yards of her way she had to struggle with a laurel wreath almost as tall as she. Among the lilies and tulips at the base of a 15-ft. cross commemorating those who died at Vught, Wilhelmina of The Netherlands laid her wreath...
Holland led off the revival in Europe by actually opening a national fair at Utrecht last week under the auspices of Queen Wilhelmina. Although more stalls were provided for exhibitors than ever before at Utrecht, there were not enough...
...Mook recalled Queen Wilhelmina's pledge of 1942: a new policy for the Empire, a Commonwealth composed of the homeland, Indonesia, Surinam and Curasao. Now was the time to set it up. He agreed with Premier Schermerhorn that full Indonesian self-government was out of the question for 15 to 20 years. But something limited must be granted; it must be worked out with "moderate" Indonesian leaders. He proposed the calling of an Indonesian Assembly under a Cabinet to be headed by himself...
...Queen Wilhelmina, looking tired and strained, had a word for her seething Indonesian subjects last week. In her first speech from the throne in six years, she addressed them across the distant barricades. Promising-as she had promised before (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942)-partnership in a "Netherlands Commonwealth," she said: "Ideas of revenge do not possess us, nor does the establishment of colonial domination...
When Britain, helping out the Dutch, sent Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison to Batavia rioting broke out on Java. The islands had Queen Wilhelmina's promise of eventual, postwar "partnership" in a Netherlands Commonwealth. But nationalists cried that the time was ripe for something more. They served notice on General Christison: if British and Indian occupation forces brought along any Dutch troops, the Dutch would be shot...