THE NETHERLANDS: Royal Wedding

An 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...

THE NETHERLANDS: I Will Maintain!

Disgruntled Dutchmen settled down grimly last week to face the gravest crisis in the 45-year reign of their beloved Queen Wilhelmina. Though Her Majesty has...

THE NETHERLANDS: Hold the Sea!

Clip-clap, clip-clap through the tidy Hague, good motherly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands clattered off last week in her State Coach to open Parliament...

THE NETHERLANDS: Long Live the Queen!

Queen Wilhelmina was tired. For 49 years, ever since she was a girl of 18 (whom Playwright Edmond Rostand once described as "the little lily queen who rules...

THE NETHERLANDS: Olympic Games

. . . The seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord Thy God: in it thou shall not do any work. . . . FOURTH COMMANDMENT To Her Majesty Wilhelmina Helena Pauline...

THE NETHERLANDS: Popular Surprise

With their broad faces cracking wide in happy smiles one hard-raining evening last week, groups of loyal Dutch gathered under dripping trees at The Hague...

THE NETHERLANDS: Must! Must!

Stout, frugal, shiny-nosed Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands is as proud as she is plain and motherly. Her court is the stiffest and most punctilious in...

THE NETHERLANDS: Gloomy Queen

For 36 years that motherly monarch, Queen Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria, has driven in a gilded coach under the tree-lined streets of The Hague to open her...

THE NETHERLANDS: Sour Grapes

Since matronly Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands and her massive daughter Crown Princess Juliana still uphold standards once upheld in England by King...

THE NETHERLANDS: Sympathetic Queen

At the Colonial Ministry of plump Queen Wilhelmina last week distressed officials admitted that some 9,400 miles away in Dutch New Guinea a number of her...