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THE NETHERLANDS: Juliana Again

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TIME

Tired of doing water colors of Dutch cows recumbent upon flat fields, Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands spent last week in Switzerland doing water colors of upstanding cows browsing against a background of jagged peaks. While Her Majesty thus rusticated, in preparation for her Jubilee in September, it was confirmed at The Hague that Crown Princess Juliana is expecting a second child. Netherlanders, disappointed that the first was a girl, busied themselves at once last week with prayers that next February they will have a male heir. The Crown Princess, whose gadabout Prince Consort Bernhard last spring took a three weeks’ bachelor vacation, leaving her at The Hague, told friends last week: “Benno and I will soon go for a cruise in the Baltic on the yacht we were given as a wedding present.”

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