Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visited Harry Truman in the remodeled White House. Juliana seemed to be enjoying herself and thanked the U.S. for helping during and after WWII.

Like most of the rest of the U.S., Washington dearly loves royalty, but the capital, still remembering the romantic pomp and glitter attendant on last autumn’s visit by Princess Elizabeth, wasn’t quite ready to be enthusiastic about Queen Juliana of The Netherlands. Frankly, a good many photographs . made Juliana…

Every citizen of Borculo was working side by side raising 2,200 guilders for the people of Warren, Ark. that was struck low by a tornado, which happened in Borculo in 1925 as well.

Nobody in the little (pop. 6,000) Netherlands town of Borculo knows anyone in Warren, Ark. personally. Nevertheless, last month the farmers, laborers, and shopkeepers of Borculo felt a sudden close kinship with the citizens of Warren. Fat, jolly Burgomaster Paul Drost had just told them what he had heard from…

A manager of Time returned from W. Europe: “The Netherlands is certainly on its way back, a token of Dutch enterprise is the really remarkable television set I saw at Philips of Eindhoven.”

William S. Honneus, advertising manager of TIME International, returned recently from an extensive business trip to Western Europe with a dossier full of firsthand observations of the European scene. The following excerpts from his personal account may serve to add another viewpoint to the excellent reports of the trained correspondents…

The Dutch celebrate a golden jubilee and say farewell to Queen Wilhelmina.

“First there was the burgemeesters’ convention,” groaned a fat mayor, “then the Queen’s birthday; on Saturday the abdication and then the inauguration. I don’t know when I’ll ever be able to get out of my morning coat.”

It was an amiable protest, for, like nearly every other Hollander, the mayor…

This week, at 68, after half a century of rule, Wilhelmina leaves the throne in favor of her sturdy daughter, 39-year-old Juliana.

Just 50 years ago, while cannon boomed and church bells rang, an 18-year-old girl with a sweet and melancholy face walked across the ancient square to Amsterdam’s Nieuwe Kerk.* A purple mantle was on her shoulders, a diadem in her hair. She was Wilhelmina, Princess of Orange, about to become… View large cover

The old Stirling “air” engine (power from expanding hot air) was redesigned by the big and smart Philips electrical company at Eindhoven, in The Netherlands.

The old Stirling “air” engine (originally patented by Robert and James Stirling of Scotland in 1816) was born in the wrong century. Its principle (power from expanding hot air) was good, but the crude materials and engineering methods of the time made it too clumsy and inefficient to be widely…

At the Institute of the Cleveland Council on World Affairs  Van Kleffens is representing the Netherlands. His tiny nation’s stake in the solution of world problems is immense.

What does the rest of the world expect of the U.S.? What is the U.S. going to do about it?

On the answers to those two questions will hang issues of war or peace, of economic reconstruction or decline—indeed, the shape of the world for the next two or…

An extensive report on postwar The Netherlands, its people, cabinet, business and its queen.

A year ago, when the filthy tide washed back, it was hard to tell what was left of Europe. Would the detritus of Nazi conquest bury a civilization, leaving its survivors in a confused struggle among the ruins? A year later it was still too soon to know. Many glimpses… View large cover

During the war Nazis removed 18 Jewish members from Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra. Now 15 of the 18 musicians were back for the symphony’s first concert since liberation.

ive years ago Nazis purged Amsterdam’s world-famed Concertgebouw Orchestra of 18 Jewish members, packed them off to a Czechoslovakian concentration camp. Last week 15 of the 18 Jewish musicians were back in their chairs for the symphony’s first concert since the liberation.

By way of a prelude, Amsterdamers had done…

The news of Philips N.V. spending $20 million on the postwar expansion of its three war-working U.S. plants has set U.S. electronics industry on edge.

Quietly last week, the North American Philips Co., Inc. announced that it will spend $20 million on the postwar expansion of its three war-working U.S. plants (at Dobbs Ferry, Mt. Vernon, N.Y., and Lewiston, Me.). This was not a dazzling amount of money. Yet the news set the whole $3½-…

At the Dumbarton Oaks conference where the U.N. was formulated and negotiated, Dutch foreign Minister Van Kleffens moves about the conference with conciliatory stubbornness.

What does it all add up to? Is San Francisco building the next generation’s freedom from war? Or is the conference merely a jealous game of power, a dusty finish for the hopes and sacrifices of millions? Of a thousand answers, one of the best balanced and shrewdest is that…

Dutch oilfield engineers and technicians went ashore close behind the attacking Australians carrying equipment shipped under Lend-Lease from the U.S.

At Borneo’s Tarakan Island last week Dutch oilfield engineers and technicians went ashore close behind the attacking Australians. With them they carried oilfield tools and equipment shipped under Lend-Lease from the U.S.

It was not by chance that the trained oilmen and their equipment were on hand for the Tarakan…

After her five long years of exile Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands. Wilhelmina toured flooded Walcheren Island where royal tears welled up again & again.

Town Crier Toon den Broeke sang out the news: Queen Wilhelmina, their venerable Landsmoeder (“Mother of the Land”) was coming home to Holland. After her five long years of exile, the villagers of little Eede would be the first to welcome her. Even now her Majesty was driving up the…

A Dutch Resistance leader fooled the Gestapo by teaching his child his first two Dutch words: “Pappie dood!” (Daddy dead!).

Children who may babble innocently to the police have always been a danger to underground workers. Last week a story from the liberated Netherlands told how one Dutch Resistance leader solved the problem. With a Gestapo price on his head, the man used to slip home now & again to…

The only full-scale fighting was in The Netherlands, where the Germans were in orderly retreat northward across the Maas. A new attack against Arnhem was mounted.

While the Allied armies on the western front waited for Antwerp to open up, there could be no general push. So, while U.S. troops, from Belgium south, scrapped fiercely in local actions and conserved their ammunition, the only full-scale fighting was in The Netherlands, where the Germans were in orderly…