THE CHOICE IN CHINA
am sorry that Colin McDonald has unavoidably to break off the correspondence. I write now not to make fresh debating points, but in an attempt to distinguish tietween the questions underlying our discussion. The first question is one of conjecture: "Are the Chinese Communists likely to govern China better than the Nationalists have done? " The second is one of principle: " Supposing that the Chinese Communists are the better of the two—are we morally justified -in supporting their more corrupt and inept oppOnents, because a Chinese Communist victory would, as we believe, adversely affect the balance of world power? " The answer to the first question will only be revealed in the unfolding of events ; the answer to the second is surely one that our own, consciences
should be providing now.—Yours faithfully, TONY GIBSON. 44 Mecklenburgh Square, W.C. r.
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