QUEEN WILHELMINA
ADDRESS TO AMERICAN CONGRESS ASSURANCE OF UNFLINCHING FAITH. IN WAR AND AFTERWARDS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.5 a.m.) RUGBY, August 6. Queen Wilhelmina addressed a joint session of the United States Congress. She spoke of the no surrender spirit which actuated the people of her oppressed country. If in a material sense, she said, they had been ruined by the enemy, their spirit grows with their hardships and they would keep unflinching faith in their liberation. The Netherlands, Queen Wilhelmina said, had adhered to the Atlantic Charter and when 'they resumed their place as an independent nation would remain America’s good neighbour. She did not forget that first the war had to be won, and in that war she was with the United States and other United Nations to the last. The Queen and President Roosevelt earlier attended a ceremony in the Washington Navy Yard at which an American-built warship was commissioned for the Dutch Navy. Naming the vessel Wilhelmina, her Majesty revealed that the ship had been transferred to the Dutch Navy under the LeaseLend Agreement.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1942, Page 3
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