A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
IN their attitude to the truth there has always been considerable variation between the nations of the world, . and several of those on whom veracity already sat but lightly have now embraced Marxism, which does not recognise the existence of truth but only of a sort of processed and expendable substitute. M. Malik's quibble about the Peking Government not being bound by the terms of the Korean Armistice because the Chinese forces in Korea were all volunteers was cynical to the point of frivolity. If a British or American spokesman had been obliged by the folly of his superiors to propound an argument so patently dishonest he would have felt uncomfortable about it. I am sure that M. Malik not only suffered no malaise but believed that he was scoring a useful point by calling attention to an aspect of the truth which had been overlooked.
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