New Queen Hailed In Netherlands

Chronicle (Levin), 6 September 1948, Page 5

New Queen Hailed In Netherlands

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Received Sunday, 7 p.m. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 4. Queen Wilhelmina chas relinquished the throne to her daughter and has be'■|inie her Royal Highness, Princess of tlie Netherlands. The signing of the, abdication was attended by Princess .ruliana, her liusband Prince Bernhard, Cabinet Ministers, and members of delegations from Indonesia and the Dutch West Indies. Following the signing Queen Wilhelmina said goodbye from the Palace balcony to thousands massed below. She will make oue public appearance at the investiture of Queen Juliana on September 6 and then pass from public life. The first proclamation signed "Juliana, Queen of the Netherland, " was read from the balcony of the Palace by Queen Jqliana herself. She told the Indonesians: "I trust that in my reign the new relationship will hnd a harmonious form which fits that which is Ijving and grovving In your midst. " Queen Juliana made her first triumphal tonr of Amsterdam after the .balcony ° ceremony. She rode in a cr.eam open coach drawn bvvsix horses. More people than ever crowded the streeta along tlje eight-mile route of the procession, cheering tlie new Queen. Prince Bernhard sat beside her. Much of the procession was through the Communist quarter of the city. British and French Governments apart at the eleventh hour. Dr. Benes hastened to London, persuaded -Lloyd Geofge to meet Poincare at Boulogne, and smoothed things out, When war came a second time, Dr. Benes flad to London wljore he becanue president- of the provisional goverument of Czechoslovakia in 1939. He worked for his country throughout the war, and he returned to Czechoslovakia in May, 1945. In the following October he was elected President by the Provisional National A.ssenjbly. In June, 1946, he was re-eleeted President for a seven-yehr terin, but resigned last June, '24 hours before the deadl jne set for signixya; the new. Soviet-