Her Majesty Queen Juliana regretted that she would be unable to attend the gala concert of the visiting Philadelphia Orchestra as planned. Late into the evening, Her Majesty would be compelled to spend her time sorting out that most un-Dutch of royal embarrassments: a Cabinet crisis. "A rather unusual phenomenon in the Netherlands," the Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant termed it. "But there are moments in life," the Het Parool of Amsterdam told its readers, "when one has to make a decision."
Premier Willem Drees, a walrus-mustachioed Laborite whom Dutchmen respect for his honest...
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