Sra,—I would like to support Colin Mcdonald in the contention
that the " moderating process " within the Communist regime is contrary to all experience in countries where Communists have seized power. In Malaya, from which_ country I have just returned, the Chinese Com- munists, mostly recent arrivals from China, are a segregated group. As everyone knows, it is they alone who are responsible for the present campaign of murder and terrorism in Malaya. Few, if any of them, have any trade other than banditry and extortion. In brief, it is the vagrant and criminal class who form the backbone of the Communist movement, at any rate in Malaya, and it is difficult to believe that, even if they were able to seize power, any moderating influence would come into operation. Malaya has a population that is half Chinese (rather more than half, to be exact) and so may prove a valuable corollary to the situation in China. The settled Chinese, who have a background of largely British culture, have no part in the Communist Movement, but new immigrants, with China as their homeland, have brought with them Communism in its most violent form.—Yours faithfully,
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