China

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32099, 22 September 1969, Page 14

China

Sir,—lt is all right for “1.5. T. to say that Chinese youth will revolt against the methods used to keep production going, but how are they to revolt when they know no other way of life? After all, their Communist masters keep them isolated from the rest of the world and they are only told the “blurb” that their masters want them to know. As an example of this, a number of Chinese sincerely believe that in the West only the bourgeois or middle class have a chance to be educated. If the present generation are made virtual automatons with built-in tape recorders, what are the next generations going to be like?—Your, etc.. A.S.N. September 19, 1969.

Sir,—Your recent articles on China clearly point out how much Mao has come to be worshipped in that land. Before we in the West throw too much ridicule on this aggrandisement, it would be-for us to remember that the main religion of the West has raised its founder to far greater heights of aggrandisement than Mao has been or is ever likely to be raised. This is not to detract from the greatness of this religion, but purely to point out what some see as the inconsistency of many of those who find Mao's selfaggrandisement as something to ridicule.—Yours, etc., I.S.H. September 19, 1969.