CIVIL WAR IN CHINA
Sir,—“Yencow” is grossly inaccurate when he praises, blames, or attempts neutrality. Thus the percentage of virtue he grants communists is in excess of that attained or required by normal people, according to Freud. He insinuates that foreign correspondents in China are fluent and convincing liars when they describe North China as democratic and non-communist, although there is no visible means of support there for that much professional zeal. Atrocities, he considers, are not done justice to when described as ‘“regrettable”; and he recommends an increase in their variety, volume, and violence by the prosecution of war and that promptly, because, although the cost of living to-day is high, the cost of killing will be higher to-mor-row. If newspapers can influence by what they say, North China will be tolerated and is not red; while if “Yencow” has his way, they will be persecuted and soon dead.—Yours, etc., H. J. BUTTLE. January 20, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25089, 22 January 1947, Page 9
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