OURSELVES AND CHINA
SIR,—Mr. Tangye probably deemed it kinder not to quote Lin Yutang in support of his statement that the average Britisher who has spent a lifetime in China would not be we:corned as a friend or interpreter by the average Chinese. In his prologue to My Country and My People, Lin Yutang has a good deal to say about the " Old China Hand," as he terms this " expert," and it makes rather uncomfortable reading. A to:gnifizent leading article in The Times on Colonial Policy and Margery Perham's two articles on " America and the Empire" brilliantly point the way of future colonial policy in the Far East and elsewhere, but if it is to be carried out successfully the old attitude of mind which regarded the inhabitants as " natives " must disappear completely.—Yours faithfully,
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