CHINA AND BRITAIN
Snt,—In taking exception to my comments on Hong Kong in my articles on China, your correspondents draw attention to the benefits accruing to China through British enterprise. I have not overlooked them as is suggested. I believe the British contribution to the World is supreme. The issue, however, is not what we have done for China, but how we can in co-operation with our Allies ensure future peace and prosperity. I have a deep faith in the leadership of the British Commonwealth, but if the work of the Allied Nations is to be effective and permanent, the British require a twentieth century approach and a realisim which will see the point of view of other peoples as well as our own. British security and commercial interests are not endangered merely by recog- nising that China has aspirations and rights as well as the British Corn-
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