THE NETHERLANDS: Lesson

While Europe's merriest royal couple— Crown Princess Juliana, almost nine months pregnant, and Prince Bernhard, now in his sixth week of recovery from a, motor smashup—spent the holidays in adjoining rooms of an Amsterdam hospital, their friends received their royal Christmas card. It bore a photograph of Benno's wrecked Ford, beneath it a verse in their own English:

You see here the wreck of a car which one day <BR> Was smashed for maintaining the right of way. <BR> This right did not help the driver for long, <BR> He is...

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