China

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31116, 20 July 1966, Page 12

China

Sir, —I return “Cosmosian” his sorrow but am glad my condition prevents me sitting alongside and playing claphandies at Communist performances. Dean Chandler visited the police State of China, the Duke of Windsor that of Germany. I would like to visit Lhasa, and admire the Potala, the Dalai Lama’s palace, ablaze with the electric lights with which China proudly claims to have replaced the yak butter lamps used for hundreds of years. My feelings would be mixed, however. The illuminations would remind me of a preference for paying accounts at the M.E.D. rather than some sort of sub-police station.

Simple arithmetic proved Germany must expand at others’ expense. It is obvious China will find the same compulsion. Mao Tse-tung has envisaged the whole world as Communist, so we can expect quite a lot of planning in those Chinese periodicals which expand on China’s success story, and which “Cosmosian” finds so enjoyable.— Yours, etc. A. B. CEDARIAN. July 18, 1966.