HEARTFELT THANKS OF HOLLAND
Reply To His Majesty (Britlsu Official Wireless.i RUGBY, May 12. The following message has been received by the King from Queen 'Wilhelmina : “I desire to express my heartfelt thanks for your kind message, proving in this moment of grave tribulation that your Majesty and your people throughput the British Empire are ready and anxious to give us all possible moral and material support. I wish to tell your Majesty how happy I am that our peoples’ fleets and armies are fighting side by side against ruthless aggression. I feel certain that the cause of freedom and justice will triumph in the end.” The King of the Belgians has replied as follows: “Your Majesty’s far-reach-ing and encouraging message has touched me deeply. It brings me, in the grave 'hour through which my country is passing, valuable proof of Um fidelity of the British people to their pledged word. The cause which Belgium is defending is sacred to my countrymen, and' I share the unshakable confidence which your message expresses in the free and independent future of our two countries.”
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 195, 14 May 1940, Page 7
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