People: Sep. 29, 1961

Having grown accustomed to her pace—Warsaw, Prague, Belgrade and Moscow in the past four years—Belgians generally regard with affectionate tolerance the Iron Curtain raisings of their beloved Queen Elisabeth, 85, widow of King Albert and grandmother of reigning King Baudouin. But last week, as the indefatigable matriarch boarded a Soviet Tupolev jet for a three-week junket to Peking, Brussels' satirical weekly Pan somewhat impatiently offered her a ghostwritten speech—just in case she might be called upon for a bit of Communist auto-criticism. Pan's suggested script: "Wife of a bloody imperialist, mother of an unscrupulous colonialist, grandmother of a despotic exploiter of...