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THE PATIENCE OF
CHIANG
SOUT
Princess Juliana
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few days ago, the heavy,humour, but within the last two was 10 and she is now 56 She Dutch papers have dug up photo- wooden doors of the Groote years her mother's widowhood has was brought up in the stern tradi-jgraphs of Princess. Juliana taken All communications intended for Hague, swung open
Kerk, the Great Church of The seemed to sober her,
tions of a generation ago. She is in Switzerland last Winter and to the first Juliana has seemed to grow strong-minded and a woman of die-have identified one member of her publication should be addressed to royal wedding they had known in more and more like her mother, cided views, serious both in her party as Prince Bernhard, Thus it the Editer, and be accompanied by
thirty-five years.
(although intrinsically their quali-talk and in her work-but she is seems that Switzerland was one of the Writer's Name and Address
Behind the gray-green not necessarily for insertion, but lining the Kerk Plein the waiting that the younger generation of the being extremely pleasant. She is
troops {ties are very different, so much so also mistress of the royal art of the places where they met. jas a guarantee of good faith.
crowds were liberally splashed (Dutch have great hopes of the very religious and very strait. One other place is known-the with orange
colour-flags, bows Princess. But they do not expect to laced; she tolerates no frivolities roof which served to hide their and ribbons. There were orange see the best of her until now she One of the wealthiest women in secret in the Netherlands, Prin- rosettes in the bridles of the is married and has an independent the world, she takes a minimum of feess Juliana's tutor from the time mounted police, and overhead the establishment of her own. These of interest in food, dress and so she was 11 years old until she be- upper stories of the buildings were two, mother and daughter, are uifitial life.
gan her studies in the University" masked by the red, white and bluelque among the royal families of In the privacy of her own of Leyden at 18 was Baroness of the Dutch tricolour and the Europe. They have no relatives in grounds, she leads an outdoor life Sloet van Martfeld, who has since orange streamers of the royal the Netherlands, and their distant so far as her work permits. Aside been married to W. F. Boell and family.
and Dow dethroned cousins infrom her simple relaxations, she now lives at Sperwershof, a big For the first time in thirty-five Germany are debarred from the mows nothing but work She country
house deep among years a daughter of the House of succession by the Dutch Constitu- makes but one public appearance beeches outside the village of Orange was wearing orange-blos- tion.
ja year-her state drive from the 's-Graveland near Utrecht. Jonk- The whole of the Nether-
little white palace in the Noor-heer Roell's daughter was a stu- Chiang Kai-shek has the lands and the empire overseas] For two reasons Europe could deinde to the old Hall of the dent friend of Princess Julians's laudable ambition of settling hung out the tricolour and pinned only greet the prospect of a Ger- Knights in the Binnenhof, where at Leyden, and
his son the fresh outcrop of trouble in a bit of orange on its coat in hon-man king in Amsterdam with at she opens the new session of the Prince Bernhard. Shensi by peaceful means and our of Crown Princess Julima's best a general crisis and at worst States-General with the speech It was from Jonkheer Roell's has overridden those of his wedding to Prince Bernhard, whoļa general war. That is one reason. from the throne. subordinates who would rush comes from the German family The other, and perhaps the more impetuously into open hos which used to rule the little prin- important of the two, is that a Necessarily, Princess Juliana on the day that their engagement tilities with the powerful forces cipality of Lippe-one of the fondness for the intervention of is much closer
to the post-war as announced. of the North-West.
largest families and one of the foreigners in the domestic con-generation. She is an attractive Chiang's is patently the bet-smallest principalities of the old cerns of the Netherlands is not young woman with rather full fea- ter way. The rebellious lead- Germany.
one of the outstanding elements tres, thick brown hair, blue eyes, ers have showed a disposition
of the Dutch character. The door rosy complexion and a chin
accordingly 'been banged, which to negotiate and while they are It was the most emotional day has
has all her mother's in that frame of mind, pre- that the Dutch have known since barred and bolted against all the strength of character in it. She cipitancy in punitive action Queen Wilhelmina herself was German cousins who might con-has the freshness and the spon- would be disastrous to the Gen-married in the Groote Kerk inceivably claim the Dutch Crown taneity which are typical of her eralissimo's policy, now general-1901. But now, as then, beneathjif the Dutch line of the House of generation; and these qualities
of all the excitement there are stern Orange should become extinct. ly appreciated
have not been bluated by the Dutch watchful waiting and gradual realities which make a
truly formidable education she stiffening
Princess Juliana's wedding to has received. of resistance to royal wedding much more than a Japan.
pleasant froth of orange-blossom, a German prince is, of course, onį
Although Generalissimo Chiang She is known everywhere. She For fifty years, ever since the another level. Frince Bernhard's has carried out public duties for Kai-shek still insists upon seeking Furthermore, if the General- ¡issimo's activities în
House of Orange lost three sans legal status will never be more her mother all over the Nether- Peaceful settlement of the Shen- st revolt, and negotiations be-
as one
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COMMUNISTS IN
SLANFU
Vanguards Reached City Yesterday
Canton, To-day.
tung. Director of the Sian Head-
Loyang, communist forces
com-
ed content to remain a bachelor
It is reported that the com.enn- Princess. Year after year the list leaders are planning to organ- The Dutch Crown, will pass in cloud on the Dutch horizon has ize
a Princess of seemed to deepen into a permanent Council with Yang Hu-cheng
2 North-Westers Political time to his wife. Orange. If she should leave no gloom..
its head to manage the affairs of beirs, her family would become These were the circumstances in Shensi
and Kansu. From Our
of ber Own Correspondent.
at
months are interpreted accur.in rapid succession in the Eighteen than that of Prince Consort, with lands and has her own circle of treen Mr. Li Chi-kiang, represen- disturb either the North-West (numbers that its extinction in the lands," not the more historic title the country houses of the pro bel leader, and General Kuo Chirk ately, he is in no great hurry to Eighties, it has been so reduced in the title "Prince of the Nether friends both in The Hague and instive of Yang Hu-cheng, the re- Army or the communists, and natural course of events has been "Prince of Orange." He becomes inces. Some day she will inherit this attitude of his remains ja possibility which has had to beja naturalised Dutch subject, and ajan immense fortune and become quarters, are still proceeding at unchanged even in the event of freckoned with. It has now been subject he will remain-the loyal the empress of 8,000,000 Hollan-
reduced to two women, the widow-and dutiful subject at first of his ders and 50,000,000 East Indians įmanded by Mo Chak-tung entered their fraternisation.
While the communists range ed Queen who has reigned longer revered mother-in-law, later of his Yet year after year she has seem Sianfu yesterday in the North on the borders of thea any other sovereign in wife. Inner Mongolia and Chang Europe, and her daughter, Pria- Hsueh-liang's troops are solidly cess Juliana, who will presumably based in Shensi, one of China's one day ascend the ruby throne of borders is firmly closed to the Amsterdam in her own right Japanese programme of "peace-
Ever since she was 18, and she legally extinct. In that event, the which the announcement ful" penetration, for if there is
is now 27, Princess Juliana has Dutch Constitution provides for engagement to Prince Bernhard of [anything the communists and
the Young Marshal's forces are had a palace and 200,000 guilders the election of a new royal house. Lippe-Biesterfeld fell upon the (agreed upon, it is on violent a year, say $360,000, of her own. In all decency, a monarchical Con-tountry like a bolt from the blue sort of pandemonium hostility to Japanese enroach-But she had never used her palace. stitutiet could hardly do other-There was
Except during her student years wise Yet the thought of the Dutch of public rejoicing which lasted
gathering at the University of Leyden, where States-General
in for a week. It rose to a climax on One of the reasons for these studies very serious solemn conclave in the old Hall of the day when the Queen rode in detention of Chiang Kai-shek
ly, she has remained under her the Knights for the purpose of in-state to open the new session of last month was to bring pres mother's roof. Especially during viting a foreigner to come and take the States-General. Her coach was sure upon the Generalissimo to the last two years, mother and charge of them is one which preceded by an ALL STOCK RANGES Japan. And a cogent daughter have seemed inseparable strains the stoutest imagination which Princess Juliana and her
factor in the rebellious ten-They have travelled together to
Representatives of over dency of the Young Marshal's Norway, Switzerland and Austria,
prince sat together, laughing in subordinate generals is their for Princess Juliana is a sports-archical Constitution, the
Despite their elaborately mon-obvious delight and waving their are appealing to the Kwang- safe hands in response to the delighted tung Government to-day for the disinclination to move farther woman, fond of Winter sports, as thing perhaps is to regard the welcome of the vast crowds. In-consideration of the new system which they be well as of rowing, hockey and Dutch as thorough-going republi- fectious laughter is the first mir of the Business (Income) Tax, an- lieve would interfere with their tennis. She plays golf too, but pro-cans in every respect except inacle that Princess Juliana's enounced by the Provincial Commis possibly futile ambition of one fesses to see little in it.
their attitude toward their pre-gagement has wrought in the sioner of Finance, Mr. T. L. Soong day making a determined at-
-Our Chen Correspondent. tempt to retake their lost territories in Manchuria.
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sent royal family. It is easy to um-Dutch. She is a good amateur photo-derstand why the House of Orange grapher, a good needlewoman and tion in the eyes of Dutch republi- easily recognizable type of Ger- ANGLO-CANADIAN The entertainment of ideas
should constitute the one excep- Prince Bernhard belongs to än
of this kind may
{a good cook. arouse feel-
Among her own
canism. William the Silent, the man. He is just the reverse of the friends she is excellent company,
"Wilhelmus” of the Dutch za-rolet blond German. He can foreign minds, but the North-liking for formality.
originally a smile. Be has Until her tional anthem, was
23 infectious West Army takes itself very father, Prince Henry, died German Prince, but the heroic langh. He has the light-hearted-| seriously, despite its backwater years ago, she seemed to resemble struggle in which he led the Dutchness of his years he is 25, two nvironment, and while that him much more than her mother. Philip IT's time made him the Juliana. He belongs to the type of the mighty Spain of years younger than Princess spirit is alive, Chiang Kai-shek for she loved music, the arts, has nothing to lose by a broad-gaiety and cosmopolitan society.
father Dutch independence. young and cosmopolitan German
London. To-day- minded toleration of, occasional She had her father's sense
From that day to this, an al-iwho is a social favourite both in An agreement in principle. has outbursts of fretful exuber-
most unbroken span of more than and out of Germany. He hai been reached between Gt. Britain 300 years, the Dutch have walked seen but little of Lippe and its and Canada regarding a new trade after all, to make a silk purse hand in hand with the great Wil-court town of Detmold. He comes Agreement, which it is hoped will out of a sow's ear.
Ham's descendants. That hand-jof a younger branch of the famibe signed shortly.----Beuter. clasp is the oldest memory theyy and has had wider contacts have. It has never been broken with the world. He was born in for long by any of the vicissitudes Jena
in and educated Princess Kouka, dusty beau-house is one of the few elements
jof their history. Outwardly, that Lausanne and Berlin.
ance.
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The Prince is still a Serene
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90TH BIRTHDAY
Royal Greetings To Preb. Carlisle
Your Daily Smile!
The senior proctor of Oxford University, in a luncheon-club ispeech, said that Oxford had |become a flourishing industrial ty who has travelled from the of stability in the shaken Europe city with the University as an Soudan to London to play in alof today. But inwardly it is so Highness, but his family was hard appendage.
desert film with Paul Robeson, reduced in numbers that the pos- hit by the November, 1918, revolu- The change in Oxford, told newspapermen, "We do brought about largely by a not love our camels
sibility of its extinction has been tion and by inflation. He and his London, To-day-The King and man who began life mending
we eat a cloud on the Dutch horizon for brothers have had to carve their Queen have sent their congratula them." Įbicycles in a small suburban
nearly fifty years.
own futures. He went into the tions to Prebendary Carlisle, foun- shop, has been immense; but ing the ship of the desert. This is not a case of debunk-
head office of L. G. Farben Indus-jder of the Church Army, who to it has not destroyed the unique Nobody loves a camel.
There have been moments of re-trie, the big German dye trust, in day celebrated his 90th birthday. character of the city. It was
lief when the cloud has seemed to Berlin last year and in January-British Wireless. Nobody who ever dealt with life, but not for long. Ever since was transferred to its Paris of ankind and untrue gibe one had a good word to say for Princess which called Oxford "the Latin The fact that it couples a birthday, there have been hopes English as fluently as German. He
Juliana's eighteenth ice, for he speaks French Quarter of Cowley."
formidable claim on the gratievery year that her engagement left Paris for The Hague on Sept tude of man with the most would be announced and the|l and presently was back in-Berlin evil disposition of any living horizon would light up again. for a day or two, where his friends organism merelymaloes mat-Usually these hopes have risen as have since recalled that he "seen "Getting into Parliament is largely
Wrang Members A high officer of the Salva-tera worse.
her birthday in April approached ed to be feeling very happy about a matter of luck," asserts a prospec- tion Army in India says that a And now worse still, for it Every April of late Dutch hopes something, but he said nothing to dive MP. Some constituencies never criminal district in the Punjab seems that the camel, so hate-have seemed to centre on Prince explain it.”
seem to have any luck, alas.
* was cleaned up by the intro-fally useful in life, becomes in Charles of Sweden.. Last April, in His engagement indeed was se duction of silkworms into a death the food of film stars. fact, Dutch wholesalers were ad-strictly guarded a secret that ever
As Always "Where does the old-fashioned forest of mulberry trees, which Out of repulsiveness comes vertising Swedish flags for imme-his
mother who comes of the leather slipper flourish most now- had previously been a sancta-forth beauty. We may yet see diate delivery during the week became family as the German tennie days?" inquiries a writer. In homes ary for outlaws and thieves camel steaks adopted as antore Princess Juliana's birthday. champion
where there are mischievous Cramm-knew boys.. The people turned, under super-integral part of the daily diet Again nothing happened:
nothing of it. How did it hap vision, to the cultivation of of Elstree and Hollywood. But Meanwhile, a whole new genera-pen? Nobody knows. Twó ΟΙ
Natural Action silicworms and a law-abiding it will take more than that to tion of the Dutch have been find-three names and places are rum- A reader says that he and his life.
reconcile man to the camel or ing little in the royal family to re-ored in connection with the fance first met at a theatre exit as It seems that it is possible, the camel to MAR.
flect their changing world. Queen courtship, and in one case there course, they started walking out to- the show was finishing. Then, of Wilhelmina has reigned since she seems to be real evidence. The gether.
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