Wilhelmina said in a speech that she is concerned about Java and promised, as she had promised before, a partnership in a “Netherlands Commonwealth.”

Queen Wilhelmina, looking tired and strained, had a word for her seething Indonesian subjects last week. In her first speech from the throne in six years, she addressed them across the distant barricades. Promising—as she had promised before (TIME, Dec. 14, 1942)—partnership in a “Netherlands Commonwealth,” she said:…