New regimes
Sir.—Left-wing regimes, either new or old, have no] monopoly of brutality and T [hope Mrs Garrett would find! “We Accuse” just as de-! [pressing as 1 found “Gulag.”! [The former describes two
[years and a half of Saigon’s; ! prisons suffered by two I Frenchmen who publicly opposed the regime in 1969. A ! brief survey of Amnesty In-; 'ternational’s monthly bulle-' | tins would also confirm my! (contention that somei [Western-type democracies! lean pursue oppression and injustice no less than some; Communist countries. It seems more likely that a non-! coercive socialism along the; Chinese lines, will evolve in Indo-China rather than the! I more oppressive State capi- i talism of Russia. — Yours,) •'etc..
PETER STOCKER. . January 7, 1976.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34045, 8 January 1976, Page 8
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