NEW PRINCESS
HOLLAND IN THE NEWS. Holland has been in the news again, because a new Princess has been born to the Royal house. All the world has been watching with a kindly smile the little country for whom nobody has anything but good-will. It has never threatened anyone, desires no one’s possessions but its own, and asks no more than to be allowed to improve them by her own industry and skill. In her time she has made history, waging an unforgettable war in defence of her religion and her liberty; but her only conquest has been that of far Eastern seas by her navigators and merchantmen. With Great Britain she has many ties, for though her Admirals, "Van Tromp and De Ruyter, fought the English in the time of the Stuarts, it was to Holland that England turned to find a successor to them. A Protestant wind bore Dutch William to Britain to become William the Third, who laid the foundations of a new peace in Europe. This Prince of Orange was one of the line of that House of Orange which returned to Holland a century and a-quarter ago and reigns there stil. Lastly, let it not be forgotten that it was in the reign of Queen Wilhelmina of that Royal house that the Peace Palace at The Hague, the international court of arbitration, was founded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1938, Page 9
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