THE SITUATION IN CHINA [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Why is it that members of the Labour Party invariably seem to take the view that their countrymen abroad must be wrong ? What type of men are representing home firms in China, and are living out here year after year for the purpose of trying to obtain orders for British products ? Are they not possessed of more than average intelligence, in fact picked men, selected to assume positions of confidence and respon- sibility ? Yet we have the spectacle of a Labour member in the House of Commons relying on translations from a Chinese newspaper and treating such information, as fact. Seeing that the extraction of truth constitutes the most difficult problem which confronts those who have daily to deal with the Chinese, one wonders if this M.P. is acting wilfully or in
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