* * * * There has never, I suppose, in
history been anything quite like the publicity with which Princess Juliana's pregnancy has been attended. She herself, of course, first announced it to the people of Holland (and of the world) by radio, and as the time for the birth of the expected child has got near the newspaper messages from Soestdijk have been getting more and more he the case-sheets at a maternity hospital. " In a few days," " in a few hours," " at any moment "—what would Victoria the Great have thought of it all ? But how healthy and sensible it all is, and how much saner than the old-time clichés about " an interesting event " and the rest of it. Mean- while I hope the Princess has been encouraged by the story in The Times on Wednesday of the dark lady in South Africa who has produced seven children in the last twelve months. * * * *
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