--Portrait of the Week— IT %ins generally felt to be
a good week for paying visits. President de Gaulle went to Moscow and spoke affably in French to cheer- ing crowds against a background of thunder- claps. There was another hearty welcome in Bucharest for Mr Chou En-lai, though his tactful hosts found it necessary to excise un- kind remarks about the Soviet Union from his reported speeches. Mrs Judith Hart was in Lusaka, where she had a fairly cool reception, King Faisal was in Washington, and His Beatitude Justinian came to London from Rumania to meet the Queen and switch on the new floodlighting for St Paul's. Some travelled for the love of it—Miss Sheila Scott, for in- stance, completed a fast flight round the world, and others took the opportunity to cross the channel in canoes, a car with paddles, and even by the usual passenger services, though this was not a very certain method. Mr Wilson himself was infected by the itch and announced his intention of calling on President Johnson next month, for no specific reason according to the White House. The spokesman hastened to add that the President looked forward avidly, however, to Mr Wilson's 'fre- quent personal messages,' whether by tele- phone, by letter or in person.
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