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 Netherlands would like $115 million for domestic reconstruction; the Netherlands East Indies is negotiating a loan to rebuild its rubber plantations and oil refineries.

If Washington’s Export-Import Bank had a cashier’s cage, foreign nationals would have been queued up there last week. With Lend-Lease ended (see NA TIONAL AFFAIRS), the borrowers were figuratively standing in front of the Export- Import Bank’s 64 desks, hat in hand:

¶ France has asked for $240 million for…