Prince Bernhard was forced to resign from virtually all his public and official posts after a government commission severely chastized him for “extremely imprudent” dealings with Lockheed.

The Royal House of Orange has held sway in The Netherlands almost without interruption for 400 years, and according to the constitution, its monarch is “inviolable.” Most of Queen Juliana’s royal subjects hoped that the same was true of her dapper, German-born husband Prince Bernhard, 65. When rumors from the…

Gerbrandy, Holland’s Premier since 1940, resigned. Queen Wilhelmina whisked him back to form a “broader” government. With food rations political unrest in Holland began in the stomach.

In London The Netherlands Government in Exile also underwent a political crisis. Pieter S. Gerbrandy, Holland’s Premier since 1940, resigned. Promptly Queen Wilhelmina whisked him back to form a “broader” government.

As in Belgium, the Resistance and hunger were behind the crisis. In Maastricht, liberated Holland’s biggest city, underground fighters…