17 AUGUST 1951, Page 15

Kaesong

Sta,—Approximately a hundred years ago Lord Macartney, while nego- tiating with the Manchu Chinese the treaty of Nanking, equally beset with thorny disputation, expressed this reflection: " The most extra- ordinary people it has ever fallen to my lot to deal with. They will yield nothing to reason, and everything to fear." The same trait of mentality is manifesting itself at the present. Nevertheless the yielding of today is with the intention of making up tomorrow, unless mill overtakes the chief negotiator meanwhile, and this is a prime factor never absent front his mind.—Believe me, Sir, truly yours, EDWARD THOMPSON. 11 Riddlesdale Avenue, Tunbridge Wells.