QUEEN WILHELMINA
STATEMENT CONCERNING WITHDRAWAL
WOULD BE POWERLESS IN HANDS OF ENEMY.
TASK TO GIVE LEADERSHIP
& CONFIDENCE.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright, (Received This Day. 10.25 a.m.) LONDON, May 24.
In the course of a statement concerning her withdrawal from the Netherlands, Queen Wilhelmina said: “From the beginning of hostilities the enemy had done everything in. his power to capture me. It is my duty to go, while the Netherlands continues the fight for liberty. In the hands of the enemy I would be powerless. This struggle is being waged by Dutchmen escaped from the occupied territory and also by the Dutch Fleet, which was able to join the Allied fleets almost unscathed. It is my task to give leadership and confidence to these forces and also to carry on the constitutional leadership of the 65 million native inhabitants of our Empire.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1940, Page 5
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