ROYAL TOUR

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28284, 23 May 1957, Page 13

ROYAL TOUR

Queen Visits Brewery (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, May 22. The Queen began the second day of her three-day State visit to Denmark with a visit to the Carlsberg breweries. But to avoid any risk of offending any sections of the British public, the brewery did not offer the Queen any beer. With Prince Philip, she toured the plant to see several processes in the manufacture of beer. King Frederik of Denmark told the Queen last night that, in spite of Soviet threats, Denmark would remain a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation to defend the common heritage of the Western world. The King’s remarks came in an address of welcome to the Queen and Duke pf Edinburgh,at a gala State dinner. In emphasising the warm ties, the King said: “Denmark and Great Britain have joined with other free peoples in the North Atlantic Alliance to defend our common Western heritage—the people are firmly determined never to lend themselves to aggression, but they are equally determined to defend their freedom.” The Queen, in her reply, praised the Damish way •of life, and the courage of the Danes under the Nazi occupation. Denmark and Britain were closely linked to each other, the Queen said. “There was a time when the long ships of Denmark caused some apprehension in Britain, but at present there are few ships better known or more popular in my country t than the Danish-built Magga Dan, which last year carried a British expedition to the Antarctic,” the Queen said.

The Queen’s first engagement after lunching with the Danish King and Queen at the Christian VII Palace was to lay a wreath at the foot of the monument in the memorial cemetery of the resistance movement on the outskirts of Copenhagen.