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peal" side of Princess Juliana
bows and brocade.
career at the University of Loyden. With several common- Not for you a casual long ers who were studying there week-end in, a country inn fishing village, and her life seems she lived in A neighbouring or a solitary crawl round to have been as typical as that old bookshops or a visit to a except perhaps that she did more of the average college girl,
public eating-house with an needlework! She smokes, of course, but not at home. The intimate friend or any of Queen still forbids her daughter the other things that make to smoke as part of Court
etiquette. up the enjoyable stuff Actually, the Princess THE U.S. MARITIME of life. Royalty implied is a doctor of jurisprudence. a good cook, an enthusias- constant surveillance by tic dancer, a bad tennis Court officials whose know- player, a publicity hater. a lover of camp life, and ledge of etiquette was one of the most eligible Prin- generally greater than their income is about £27,000, and it cesses in Europe. Her annual acquaintance with the or- will be increased on her wedding dinary problems of living
STRIKE
Although there
are
other
The
The
day.
issues involved, such as wages and overtime pay, it is clear that the real stumbling-block pre-
Her marriage to-day will, of venting settlement of the
a jolly reasonable existence. course, delight the Dutch people disastrous American shipping
who find her fairly characteristic wara truism this of their own outlook. Contrary strike is the hiring hall,
changed all that. The King of to the ridiculous rumours about shipowners, however, claim that Sweden began to play dawn ten- her future that used to all the neither union recognition, nor is on the Riviera. with players European Press they have al- the hiring hall itself is an issue:/whose stardom was more at one ways known that one day she with physical fitness than with would marry someone just like
Prince Bernard
Lippe- Biesterfold, for under Dutch Our own Princes were seen law she is forbidden to marry more and more in public res- the heir presumptive to another taurants, and sometimes in throne. East End pubs talking things They also knew that as she is. over with working men and lads. Queen Wilhelmina's only child In Holland the Princess Juliana, there was no question of her not only daughter of Queen Wilhel- marrying.
von
-FACTS-
Princess Juliana; good cook, bad tennis player:
lias £27,000 a year.
The kingdom of the Nether- lands was established, in 1874 during the Napoleouic Wunts. First king was William, son of William Y., Prince of Orange and hereditary Stadt-holder of the Netherlands, of the same family as William III. of Eug- land.
Queen Wilhelmina`(born 1880) succeeded her father in 1890, her mother acting as regent for eight years. She married Prince Henry of Mecklenburg in 1901. He died 1934. Their daughter is Princess Juliana, born 1000,
than with the international im- portance of her marriage.
One thing is certain." Holland' will have an exceptionally well- informed. Queen when Juliana ascen the throne. Already in the absence of, her mother from the Hague she has acted nš Directress of the Queen's affairs. She speaks several languages. fluently, and has studied Inter- national law and the whole struc- ture of Dutch national and local government at careful first-hand.
it is a matter of selection of social status. men, they say they do not
The knowledge will be needed, wish to be forced to accept any
for one day she will rule some 57,000,000 people, of which about union men who, in their opinion,
-50,000,000 live in Holland's Low Countries-so long are not acceptable to the com-
the colonial possessions. But she panies. On the other hand, the
linch-pin of British diplomacy? will have the advantage of com- parative security. As someone unions_maintain that if they
once said:"You-don't-have-rc- I do not think the marriage valutions in a country where any- surrender control of the hiring mina and heir to the historic A modern Court, despite the will have much effect on the halls, employers will be able to throne of the Netherlands, be post-war democratisation, still European situation, certainly body can see the Queen sitting discharge a man at any time gan to appear in the suburbs of has its compulsory obligations. not
at present. The Dutch sewing at her window." the Hague on a push bike. I have often pondered on both people are sturdy and indepen- they wish without assigning A new conception of royalty, the thraldom and thrilldom of dent, and while they fear the A word about her famous any reason that men favoured stimulated no doubt by the fate monarchy. All over the world growing Imperialist aims of Nazi house of Orange and her re- by the shippers will get regular tic European Royal Families at and girls will be just a
women Germany, they are not the kind lations. that overtook so many autocra- to-day countless men,
She gets the name little of people either to buy off a Juliana from Juliana von Stol- work and that others just as the end of the war, had entered thrilled by the fact that an heir potential aggressor or to appease berg (1506-1580), mother of Wil- deserving will be left out. In the mind not only of common to a throne is getting married, one by artificial arrangement, liam the Silent, founder of the Any dynastic change wakes both What they desire most is com- United Netherlands and ancestor defence of the hiring hall, the people but of royalty itself.
The Dutch Court is an in memories of old unhappy kinga mercial success, national inde- of the House of Orange which unions point to the admitted teresting example of democra- and queens and speculations of pendence and domestic happiness, we know so well in this country fact that there is an overcrowd-tised. royalty. It is one of the new royal destinies that may be From my own knowledge of from the King William she sent the delightful Dutch people I us. Juliana is, of course, related Ing of the labour market, and wealthiest in Europe. Queen carved out in coming ages.
Wilhelmina has civil list of The sleepiest Foreign Office imagine therefore that to-day to our own Royal Family, that the hiring halls are de-about £160,000. As Sovereign wakes up and re-estimates the the bulk of them are more con- Princess Alico, Countess of signed to equalise and rotate she also receives large sums in future in view of the fresh de- cerned with the personal hap- Athlone, is Queen Wilhelmina's employment among the sea and rent from her family domains velopment. Will it mean a loss piness of their Princess than cousin, and both the Queen of and a State allowance to main of friendship, a new ally, a with the diplomatic speculations Holland and her daughter have dock men. If control of hiring tain the royal palaces. In addi- different diplomatic orientation? that must accompany every been frequent visitors to, this tion she controls a large private In the present case European royal marriage between membera country. Last September they fortune raised commercially by diplomats will be wondering if of different Stater.
spent several weeks visiting. King Willem I, who abdicated the marriage of a royal Dutch-
In the same way the average beauty-spots in the Highlands of to dock hiring and what they in 1840. Under the Dutch con- woman and a German princeling typist who cooks her own meal Scotland, and the Princess acted term "slave market days. stitution she has considerable will some time or other cement at night will, I feel sure, be more pa bridesmaid at the wedding of
executive powers.
a new friendship between ex interested in the fact that this Princesa Marina and the Duke Employers state that the It will be seen, therefore, that panding Germany and neutral eligible Princess' favourite meal of Kent. fundamental question is whether every excuse exists in the minded Holland. Will it affect is pea soup, sausages served with Great Britain will wish her or not union agents shall dictate Dutch Court for a tendency to Britain's jealous regard for the apple sauce, and fruit pudding well.
is lost, the sailors und longshore- men assert, it will mean a return
wards
monarchical totalitar-
to employers what individual innism and consequent instabili men they can or cannot hire, or ty. Instead,, the throne which whether employers shall have the new engaged Princess will free selection of workers from one day occupy has never been, the union men available. It is
further claimed that ship-
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Can Dreams Solve Crimes?
nevertheless
`n A search party at once set off to the
Burc
RECENT reference to Maltre suburb, and made a mental note of a vision, in which she saw the girl's A in this strike include marine barrister,
Maurice Garcon, the well-known the street it was in and the number, body lying half'in and half out of and criminal casca A day or two later she read in the a pool at the side of a very lonely cooks, stewards, firemen, oilers, Involving witchcraft and sorcery, is papers of the discovery of the dis- and little frequented country lane. PERFECTED HER
reminder that the occult has fremembered remains of a man in. owners are responsible to the water-tenders and wipers, whoquently played a part in the solution sack, and at once informed the pollee lane, and found the child's body in Government and to the general also want hiring halls; whilst and prevention of trime. Here is a of her dream. Though they were the exact spot indicated,
modern instanco of one of the occult inclined to treat it rather lightly they Before accepting the aid of cloir- ARDENA HAIR-OFF ELECTRA ERADICATOR public for the safe operation of engineers, masters, mates, pilots modern i
trumped up some voyants, however, the German and American vessels, and that they and radio operators, whose woman living in a suburb of been seen to enter, they are bona fide and able to do
pretext to visit the house which the Austrian pollee always make cannot discharge that responsi- numbers may not be sufficient to Vienna dreamed one night she saw dream girl bado cooms they found what they claim to do. They rarely a lovely girl in the act of strangling
д crime. The } if ample evidence of
ever, consult professional mediums. bility unless they are free to warrant the expense of hiring a feeble, old man. Every detail in dream girl was subsequently arrested Indeed, there is so much fraud and
halls, also seck union preference the hideous drama stood out most select crews which, in their in employment. It will be seen vividly, even the colour of the table- and ultimately convicted. Her name charlatanism among professional me- diums that it is wisest to have good judgment, are competent and from these points that im- the murder was talding place. She
cloth and carpet in the room where was Francesca Klein.
capabilities before a consultation on safe. The unions' answer to portant and dificult issues are woke in a stato of terror, to go to Helping the Police
sleep again and have the same
any very serious matter.
the One of
most remarkable- this point is that, in any event, involved, going to the very root dream. The following
Both in Austria and Germany atale- every sailor who goes to sea of conditions of employment. when out shopping, she saw the wo- voyants have, through their psychic authentle cases of the occult alding man of her dream. There was no faculties, not infrequently materially in the detection crime occurred in At the moment, the parties scem mistaking her, every feature in her assisted in the detection and preven- the early part of last contury. must
nan, when turning over possess a, Government
A clergyman, face was the same, 'ns was the shape tion of crime. far from reaching an agreement of her dainty and singularly lovely liconee, and that, therefore, no Meanwhile, American
Only a year or two ago the Vienna the pages of a Bible, in a Lancashire trade hands.
service, police consulted a natural clairvoy church, before morning question of competency actually and shipping la suffering
Impelled by curiosity and a some ant regarding the disappearance of found what he, at first, supposed to arisca. Others also concerned severely,
thing she could not resist, she follow-n-seven-years-old girl. The clair be the banna of marriage. He opened. ed her to a house in a neighbouring voyant went into a trance, and had
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