Prince in second scandal
NZPA The Hague Holland’s Lockheed bribes scandal, which has already disgraced Prince Bernhard, widened as political attention switched to disclosures that the prince strongly supported another American aircraft company in its bid to win “the arms sale of the century.” The result has been a new shock to a nation already stunned by the close connections maintained by the Prince, husband of Queen Juliana, with the United States Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. There may now be demands for a full scale Parliamentary inquiry. The complex scandal took its latest turn when the Dutch Government, under pressure from Parliament, published documents on Friday revealing that Prince Bernhard once approached Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany, then Bonn’s Defence Minister, to discuss sales of the Northrop Corporation’s F-17 Cobra combat aircraft.
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Press, 6 September 1976, Page 8
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