British Allies and Friends, "Today is Queen Wilhelmina's sixtieth birthday.
Allow me to express on this occasion, which will be reverently celebrated by Netherlanders all over the world, the sentiments of my countrymen in i lish and Netherlands peoples as strongly as our common hatred of totalitarianism and of its crimes against civilization.
"I wish to voice our deep felt gratitude for the hospitality so generously extended on British soil to our Sovereign and to the members of You have added to these links the strongest of all,—gratitude "Our respective peoples are the better friends for having fought each other in the past; we have been joined ere this in a common war for principles which we held dear under William, our Stadtholder, your King.
"We are proud to be allied with you today in the fight for decency, freedom and the democratic ideals of civilized existence. To that fight we pledge ourselves heart and soul."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.