Dear Editor
CHINA Valentin Chu's article on China's "National Character" (NL, March 30) is a masterpiece of the first order, both as journalism and as to the enlightenment it provides on the Chinese people. It...
...Copies of this informative booklet may be obtained by writing to the Committee for Solidarity with Tibet, Kermani Building, P. Mehta Road, Bombay, 1. A small donation along with the request would, I am sure, be most appreciated...
...But the moment he began to speak of the Soviet citizen's attitude toward the regime, he was a full-blown ignoramus...
...The pamphlet contains a foreword by the Indian Socialist leader, Jayaprakash Narayan...
...It is an article which every United States official concerned with the Far East should master and be guided by...
...Two weeks ago I listened to a university dean deliver a two-hour lecture on his recent trip to the Soviet Union...
...Much of what he writes about Chinese resistance to Communism is equally true of the Russian people...
...I hope some congressman will insert the Chu article in the Congressional Record and distribute reprints all over the country...
...As long as he talked about the trip itself, he stood on firm ground...
...The Russian masses, according to the speaker, do not know the meaning of freedom, appreciate the Soviet rulers, etc., etc...
...New York City VICTOR LASKY...
...When I took him to task, he resented it greatly...
...The Committee is headed by the noted editor and author, Frank Moraes, who is well known through his books and travels in this country...
...And the American people has displayed the same ignorance about China as has prevailed about the attitudes of the Russian people since 1917...
...These quarter-baked "experts" who return after a few days in Russia and tell the American people a lot of nonsense are doing us a great disservice...
...This should help silence the campaign for doing business with and recognizing Communist China...
...The Committee has just published a pamphlet entitled "Tibet—A Few Facts," which attempts to assay current developments in the remote Himalayan nation in the light of history...
...New York J. ANTHONY MARCUS TIBET Your readers may be interested in knowing that a Committee for Solidarity with Tibet, composed of prominent Indian citizens, has been organized in Bombay with the objective of winning support for Tibet's freedom fighters in the free world...
...I doubt if there is anyone in the State Department who could ever match Chu's understanding of the subject...
Vol. 42 • April 1959 • No. 16
