DUTCH QUEEN
FAITH IN DEMOCRACY AND IN THE DOWNFALL OF AUTOCRACY. ADDRESS TO UNITED STATES CONGRESS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 6. In her address to both Houses of Congress, Queen Wilhelmina said: “Seeing this great democratic assembly renewing itself at regular intervals seems to me a sure guarantee that liberty is forever young, strong and invincible, whereas an autocrat is incapable of rejuvenating himself. Every day he is nearer his end and his regime is doomed to die with him. I have no doubt that if an invader tried to coyer the wholesale pillage of America with the firing squad, the concentration camp and the abomination of hostage practice, your answer would be resistance to the end. That is the answer my people have given and are giving. We want to resume our place as an independent-nation—-above all we want to see suitable measures taken in order that henceforth no nation can with impunity break its pledged word, or attack others, but when speaking of war and peace aims I do not forget that, first of all, there is a war to be won.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1942, Page 4
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