The Archive · 1940

Brave House of Orange

Princess Juliana's younger baby was christened in Buckingham Palace Fast week under the confident name fof Irene, and Queen Elizabeth was godmother. I believe that another baby is. due about August. This seems the occasion for repeating 101 Princess Juliana Macbeth's stirring allowed to keep their alien servants. But this is a so-called reserved area.

By all accounts the interned aliens are having a very good time in the Isle of Man. There is no barbed wire, no concentration camp, no food rationing, 'There is a curfew, but very" little restriction in any' othe. form. In fact, it is rather the lan' ladies and hotel owners unceremontously bundled out of their homes to make way for the internees for whom one is sorry, "Yet how hard some people are to! please. The story is told of one German girl in floods of tears at her departure. "She didn't mind being interned, "but I don't want to be made to play golf," she sobbed. So she had "Interpreted a newspaper Statement that there would be golf and lawn tennis for the aliens.

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