GREAT BRITAIN A FOOLISH DISPLAY FOR THREE DAYS LONDON'S GENTEEL WEST END 
LOOKED LIKE A BATTLEFIELD . NEAR BUCKINGHAM PALACE, SQUADS OF POLICE 
GRAPPLED WITH LEATHER-JACKETED TOUGHS, WHILE CHAUFFEURED BENTLEYS DELICATELY INCHED THEIR WAY 
THROUGH . WILD-EYED GIRLS WITH STRAGGLY BLACK HAIR AND BLUEJEANED BOYS 
WITH GOLDEN TRESSES WERE FROG-WALKED INTO PADDY WAGONS . SOME 200 
PEOPLE WERE JAILED . TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAOS, A SIX-MAN 
GANG WAYLAID THE DOWAGER DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND, SPED OFF IN A 
WHITE JAGUAR WITH HER JEWELS, WORTH $200,000 . MOST SHOCKING OF 
ALL, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HER ELEVEN-YEAR REIGN, QUEEN ELIZABETH 
II WAS BOOED BY HER OWN PEOPLE . CAUSE OF THE 
TROUBLE WAS THE LONGEXPECTED, LONG-DISPUTED STATE VISIT TO BRITAIN BY GREECE'S 
KING PAUL AND QUEEN FREDERIKA . FEARING PRECISELY THE KIND OF 
LEFT-WING DEMONSTRATIONS THAT OCCURRED LAST WEEK, GREEK PREMIER CONSTANTINE KARAMANLIS ADVISED 
AGAINST THE TRIP, RESIGNED WHEN THE ROYAL COUPLE REFUSED TO BOW 
TO PRESSURE AND DECIDED TO GO ANYWAY . BRITISH POLITICAL CRITICS 
BASE THEIR CASE AGAINST THE KING AND QUEEN LARGELY ON THE 
FACT THAT GREEK JAILS STILL CONTAIN ABOUT 1,000 PRISONERS SEIZED MORE 
THAN A DECADE AGO DURING THE CIVIL WAR ; MOST ARE 
BELIEVED TO BE COMMUNIST, AND THE GREEKS POINT OUT THAT THEY 
ARE BEING GRADUALLY RELEASED ANYWAY (THE ORIGINAL NUMBER OF PRISONERS WAS 
4,000) . THE QUEEN IS ALSO ACCUSED OF NAZI SYMPATHIES, AN 
OLD AND ABSURDLY EXAGGERATED CHARGE, AND OF MEDDLING TOO MUCH IN 
GREEK POLITICS, HARDLY A BRITISH CONCERN . THE ANTIGREEK CHORUS IS 
MADE UP OF A MOTLEY COLLECTION OF COMMUNISTS, SOCIALISTS, ANTI-MONARCHISTS, VAGUE 
CRUSADERS IN SEARCH OF NEW CAUSES, BAN-THE-BOMBERS (INCLUDING THAT FOOLISH SAGE, 
BERTRAND RUSSELL), ALL OF THEM JOINED IN THE LONDON STREETS BY 
JOY-RIDING BEATNIKS . AMAZINGLY, THEY WERE ALSO JOINED, IN SPIRIT, BY 
LABOR PARTY LEADER HAROLD WILSON AND DEPUTY LEADER GEORGE BROWN, WHO 
CHOSE TO BOYCOTT A BANQUET FOR THE VISITORS WHICH COULD ONLY 
RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH AND STABILITY OF BRITISH POLITICS 
. BORN PRINCESS OF HANOVER, FREDERIKA IS A GRANDDAUGHTER OF KAISER 
WILHELM II (AND A GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF BRITAIN'S QUEEN VICTORIA, WHICH ALSO 
MAKES HER A BRITISH PRINCESS AND A THIRD COUSIN OF QUEEN 
ELIZABETH) . WHEN FREDERIKA WAS A YEAR OLD, HER FAMILY MOVED 
FROM GERMANY TO AUSTRIA . AS A GIRL, SHE SUPPOSEDLY BELONGED 
TO A HITLERITE YOUTH GROUP . IN SCHOOL IN ITALY DURING 
HER LATE TEENS, AT A TIME WHEN THREE OF HER BROTHERS 
SERVED IN THE WEHRMACHT, SHE WAS HEARD TO DEFEND NAZI GERMANY 
. THAT IS ABOUT THE ONLY FACT CRITICS CAN CITE TO 
SUPPORT THEIR CASE . AFTER MARRYING PAUL IN 1938, FREDERIKA FLED 
GREECE UNDER NAZI BOMBARDMENT, LIVED IN EXILE IN EGYPT AND SOUTH 
AFRICA TILL WAR'S END . AGENTS IN OVERALLS . FOR THE 
ROYAL VISIT, THE MACMILLAN GOVERNMENT MOUNTED A SECURITY FORCE THAT OUTDID 
EVEN THE BULGANIN-KHRUSHCHEV WELCOME IN 1956 . ON HAND WERE 5,000 
POLICE, INCLUDING PLAINCLOTHESMEN DISGUISED IN EVERYTHING FROM MORNING COATS TO OVERALLS 
. AS THE ROYAL PROCESSION OF CARRIAGES CLIPCLOPPED FROM VICTORIA STATION, 
WHERE ELIZABETH GREETED THEM, TO BUCKINGHAM PALACE, A WOMAN BURST FROM 
THE CROWD AND SHRIEKED : " RELEASE MY HUSBAND ! " 
SHE TURNED OUT TO BE MRS . BETTY AMBATIELOS, 45, THE 
ENGLISH WIFE OF ANTONIOS AMBATIELOS, A GREEK COMMUNIST SERVING A LIFE 
TERM FOR HIS PART IN THE CIVIL WAR . THAT NIGHT, 
WHILE THE ROYAL COUPLES AND 156 OTHER GUESTS DINED IN BUCKINGHAM 
PALACE, 2,000 DEMONSTRATORS POURED INTO TRAFALGAR SQUARE WITH BANNERS PROCLAIMING " 
DOWN WITH THE NAZI QUEEN . " THE CROWD SEEMED BENT 
ON STORMING THE PALACE BUT ENCOUNTERED MASSED LINES OF BOBBIES BLOCKING 
THE WAY . POLICE HELMETS CLATTERED ACROSS SIDEWALKS, FISTS FLEW, TRAFFIC 
STALLED, AND PRANCING POLICE HORSES BOWLED OVER CROWDS . RIOTERS FOUGHT 
OFF COPS FROM ATOP A DOUBLEDECK BUS . A FEW YOUTHS 
WHO MADE IT TO THE MALL WERE STOPPED BY FLYING TACKLES 
. " SEIG HEIL ! " FOR THE NEXT NIGHT, SO 
THAT THE ROYAL PARTY COULD SEE SHAKESPEARE'S A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM 
IN NEAR-PERFECT SECURITY, THE FOREIGN OFFICE HAD BOUGHT UP ALL 1,100 
TICKETS TO THE ALDWYCH THEATER, DISTRIBUTED THEM TO A SELECT AUDIENCE 
THAT INCLUDED LEADERS OF LONDON'S GREEK COMMUNITY . SHORTLY BEFORE CURTAIN 
TIME, A FALSE REPORT THAT A BOMB HAD BEEN PLANTED IN 
THE THEATER LED TO THE ADDITIONAL SPECTACLE OF POLICE IN EVENING 
CLOTHES COMBING THE ROYAL BOX WITH A MINE DETECTOR . HELD 
BACK BY SIX ROWS OF POLICE, 1,500 PEOPLE OUTSIDE GREETED THE 
ROYAL ARRIVALS WITH AN UGLY DIN OF BOOS, HISSES AND MOCKING 
SHOUTS OF " SIEG HEIL ! " AND " FASCIST SWINE 
. " THOUSANDS OF OTHERS CHEERED . AFTER THE PLAY, QUEEN 
ELIZABETH LEFT THE THEATER ALONE, AND WAS GREETED BY ANOTHER CHORUS 
OF BOOS . SHE LOOKED STARTLED AND DISMAYED . IT WAS 
PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME THAT BRITISH ROYALTY HAD BEEN SO PUBLICLY 
HUMILIATED AT HOME SINCE EDWARD VII WAS HISSED AT EPSOM IN 
THE LAST CENTURY AFTER RUMOR INVOLVED HIM AS A CORRESPONDENT IN 
A DIVORCE CASE . WORSE THAN WOOLLY . NEXT DAY, GREEK 
PREMIER PANAYOTIS PIPINELIS, WHO ACCOMPANIED THE KING AND QUEEN, GRANTED MRS 
. AMBATIELOS A 45-MINUTE HEARING, WHEREUPON SHE CALMED DOWN . BACK 
IN GREECE, 19 OF THE PRISONERS (NOT INCLUDING AMBATIELOS) WERE FREED 
. AT WEEK'S END THE ROYAL COUPLE QUIETLY RETURNED TO GREECE 
. SAID FREDERIKA BEFORE SHE LEFT : " THE DECISION TO 
COME TO BRITAIN FOR A STATE VISIT WAS THE RIGHT ONE, 
ABSOLUTELY RIGHT . I AM NOT WORRIED ABOUT THOSE FEW PEOPLE 
WHO DEMONSTRATED . THE MEMORY I HAVE IS OF THE WARM 
RECEPTION WE WERE GIVEN ON OUR ARRIVAL . " IN BRITAIN 
THE FOOLISH DISPLAY OF THE ANTI-GREEK DEMONSTRATORS LEFT UNPLEASANT ECHOES . 
THOSE BEHIND THE RIOTS, WROTE THE DAILY MIRROR, " ARE NOT 
MERELY LEADING WOOLLY-MINDED UNDERGRADUATES IN WOOLLY-MINDED PEACE PROTESTS ; THEY ARE 
PROVIDING A SHIELD FOR MISCHIEVOUS COMMUNIST AGITATION . " THE PAPER 
NOTED THAT " GREECE IS ABOUT THE ONLY COUNTRY IN EASTERN 
EUROPE FREE FROM DICTATORSHIP, " THEN POSED A QUESTION THAT SELF-ADVERTISED 
IDEALISTS HAVE YET TO ANSWER : WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME 
THEY DEMONSTRATED IN BEHALF OF THE POLITICAL PRISONERS OF LITHUANIA OR 
ESTONIA OR LATVIA OR POLAND OR HUNGARY OR RUMANIA OR BULGARIA 
OR EAST GERMANY OR CZECHOSLOVAKIA ? 