30 MAY 1952, Page 22

The Cost of Indo-China

Stit,-1 do not wish to discuss Mr. Peterson's line of argument in his article on The Cog of Indo-China and his views on the effect of a Communist victory in Indo-China on morale in Malaya. But, in my experience of Singapore since the war, no piece of news, not even the outbreak of war in Korea, made such an immediate and deep impression as the news of the Russian recognition of Ho Chi Minh's Government, and no piece of news provoked such open comparison with the threats leading up to the fall of Malaya in 1942.—Yours.