The Archive · 1940

A London Letter

Be Oune Dox.

London, May 15.

It must have been very bitter Queen Withelmina to have to leave Holland, apart for her sorrow for her subjects! undeserved sufferings. For four centuries no sovereign of the House of Orange has left Holland in war time. But the Germans, with their well known chivalry. towards women and children, were doing their utmost to capture her or, failing that, to bomb her residence and the Nether= Jands Commander-in-Chief told her that in the interests of her people she must go.

'The Queen does not intend to estab-Ash her Court in London, but insists that she will go back to' Holland at the earliest possible opportunity. 'Where she and Princess Juliana will live in England is not yet known. Belvedere, the Duke of Windsor's empty house at Virginia' Water, might be a ood place, It is in a safety area and within easy reach of London, Tt will be interesting by the way to soe what the Germans do with the ex-Kaiser if they catch him. He is said to have a marvellous dug-out at Doorn lined with polished wood from trees which he cut down himself. The Nazis do not love him and would not allow his relations in Germany go to Doorn for his birthday party last January. Quite likely they will ut him in 'Dachau, 'The brutal invasion of Holland and Belgium Alls one with unchristian, lings and when we read of the Netherlands crowd. lynching a parachutist' we Tub our hands." But the Germans do not make war, they commit murder in its vilest form,

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