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856.001W64/54: Telegram

The Chargé in Canada (Simmons) to the Secretary of State

Ottawa, June 10, 1940—noon.
[Received June 10—11:47 a.m.]

122. I am reliably informed in confidence from high governmental source that Queen Wilhelmina and certain other members of Nether-land Royal Family will arrive by British destroyer in Canada approximately today.71

Simmons

[For note from the German Foreign Office requesting the United States to withdraw the diplomatic missions in Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxemburg, see telegram No. 2223, July 1, 10 a.m., from the Chargé in Germany, page 174. For Department’s instructions to close the missions, effective not later than July 15, 1940, see telegram No. 1856, July 4, noon, page 175.]

  1. Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands and her two children arrived in Canada on June 11, 1940, to stay in Ottawa for duration of the war. Queen Wilhelmina remained in England with her Government.↩