Views on China
Sir—l thank "Giles Mathews” of the “Daily Telegraph” for his response to criticism of his reprinted article on modern China. However, your commendable revelation that his by-line is a nom-de-plume hardly helps his case, despite his reported “some time spent in China.” How long, where, and with whom? He applies the term humbug to his critics. This means falsehood, deception, trick or hoax, and I suggest that denigration is transferable back to him. An English surgeon, Dr Joshua Horn, who spent 15 sacrificial years working in China (1954-69) takes a far more objective and compassionate view of the Chinese revolution. His book “Away with all Pests” is just one account; older, but, I submit, much closer to the truth than “Giles Mathews scribblings.—Yours, etc., M. T. MOORE. (July 17, 1984. f
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