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Juliana, Queen of the Netherlands, 1909-2004

Carillon Presented to the People of the United States by the People of the Netherlands

Her Royal Highness Queen Juliana of the Netherlands presents a carillon in gratitude to the people of the United States from the people of the Netherlands. President Harry S. Truman's remarks upon accepting the carillon. The President spoke at 3:45 p.m. in Meridian Hill Park in Washington. His opening words referred to Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, her husband Prince Bernhard, and Secretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman. He also referred early in his remarks to his daughter Margaret who was on a concert tour in the western States.