> Rebel Moby Wrote:
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> Nice American incorrect propaganda recollection of some of the facts,
> Dong.
>
> The reason for the annual Tulip Festival is commemorating the
> relationship between Canada and their country.
>
> Foe example. the reference to England is incorrect. Britain was under
> heavy attack during WW2 and was NOT a safe haven for the family. The
> Dutch family had been living in Canada since June 1940 after the
> occupation of the Netherlands by Nazi Germany. The maternity ward of
> Ottawa Civic Hospital in which Princess Margriet was born was
> temporarily declared to be extraterritorial by the Canadian government.
> Making the maternity ward outside of the Canadian domain caused it to be
> unaffiliated with any jurisdiction and technically international
> territory. This was done to ensure that the newborn would derive her
> citizenship from her mother only, thus making her solely Dutch, which
> could have been very important if the child had been male, and as such,
> the heir of Princess Juliana.
>
> It was not until August 1945, when the Netherlands had been liberated,
> that Princess Margriet first set foot on Dutch soil. Princess Juliana
> and Prince Bernhard returned to Soestdijk Palace in Baarn, where the
> family had lived before the war.
>
> > Don Ohio Wrote:
>
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>
> > The Dutch royal family, living in exile in London, appealed to the
>
> > Allied powers for help. “If a major catastrophe, the like of which has
>
> > not been seen in Western Europe since the Middle Ages, is to be
> avoided
>
> > in Holland, something drastic has to be done now,” Dutch Queen
>
> > Wilhelmina desperately wrote to British and American leaders. U.S.
>
> > President Franklin D. Roosevelt, proud of his family’s Dutch roots,
>
> > pledged American aid. “You can be very certain that I shall not forget
>
> > the country of my origin,” he wrote to the queen on March 21, 1945.
>
> >
LOL! LOL! LOL! Don knows everything because he's a privlidged white American Christian. God is always on his side.