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title: 'Oranje-Bode, first issue, 1943: birth of Princess Margriet'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/oranje-bode-margriet-1943/
description: Single printed sheet in orange ink headed 'Oranje-Bode' for the birth of Princess Margriet Francisca, with two portrait photographs set into a drawn tree…
section: Collection
---

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# Oranje-Bode, first issue, 1943: birth of Princess Margriet

Single printed sheet in orange ink headed 'Oranje-Bode' for the birth of Princess Margriet Francisca, with two portrait photographs set into a drawn tree trunk and a short verse. Tells: the colour orange, the tree of the House of Orange and the verse's 'Holland blooms again' tie the exiled dynasty's family event to hope for the end of the occupation.

## Text on the object

Original (Dutch) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
ORANJE-BODE
ter gelegenheid van de geboorte van
H.K.H. Prinses Margriet Francisca

HOLLAND GROEIT WEER !
HOLLAND BLOEIT WIJER !

Ja, zij zullen
Zich vervullen,
Deze tijden van geluk!
Dees ellenden
Gaan volenden;
En, verpletterd wordt het juk.
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
ORANGE-HERALD
on the occasion of the birth of
H.R.H. Princess Margriet Francisca

HOLLAND GROWS AGAIN!
HOLLAND BLOOMS WIDER!

Yes, they shall
Be fulfilled,
These times of happiness!
These miseries
Will come to an end;
And the yoke will be crushed.
```

All printed text is on the page and clearly legible; 'WiJER' in the second slogan is printed with a lower-case i. Dutch read by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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