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...Dutch Protestants and Catholics are fighting the Nazis more openly on the matter of anti-Semitism than Christians anywhere else in occupied Europe. Both still pray in public for Queen Wilhelmina...
...that the R.A.F. bombed The Netherlands with 1,000,000 of a new type delayed-action bombs. Each was a rectangular box about three inches by two inches by one, colored orange-in honor of the House of Orange. Each bore the letters V (for Victory) and W (for Wilhelmina). Inside each box were 20 little white cylinders-cigarets made of tobacco from The Netherlands Indies and marked OZO (for Oranje Zal Overwinnen -Orange Will Triumph). Their hoped-for delayed action: sabotage, resistance, violence against the Nazis...
Exiled Queen Wilhelmina, who turned 61, was promised a destroyer as a gift from her scattered subjects. . .Crown Princess Juliana halted a New England trip at Montpelier, Vt., went to bed for a few days' rest. . . Out for a spin with Ontario's Premier Mitchell Hepburn, the Duke of Kent suddenly wrenched the wheel, slithered off the road, just missed a truck that had turned into his path. . .Ex-King Carol and Elena found Mexico City more responsive than Havana. They gave a party at which Heiress Barbara Hutton and Friend Cary Grant turned...
...Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, who is not the tough customer Hubertus van Mook is. The Dutch did no such thing. Twelve days after the Japanese delegation arrived, while small Minister Kobayashi was being escorted around by a guard of honor picked for stature and bulk, Queen Wilhelmina cabled Batavia the appointment of Van Mook as Cabinet Min's er for the duration of the negotiations. Minister van Mook and Minister Kobayashi thereupon set out to two-time each other out of their timetables...
American Dutchman. The most important Netherlander save Queen Wilhelmina, the man who got for his colonial homestead the time to prepare its defense, is more like an American than a Dutchman. Not only does he speak English, with an American accent, he plays golf and smokes Camels. He has a town house in Batavia and a country house not far away, where he and his charming Dutch wife often entertain visiting diplomats and journalists. Among their close friends are U.S. Consul General Walter A. Foote and his wife...