Manchester Guardian
21 JUL 1949
Shanghai
The Communists in Shanghai have closed the British and American information offices. The Americans have already protested. What are we going to do in reply?
Ing the middle of a revolution it is foolish to get embroiled with the side making the revolution. The art of living in a revolution is to avoid direct clashes and not to make too much of "incidents." It is the mark of a mature country not to get excited over pinpricks. But a mature country which lets its beard be pulled may appear merely senile. It is to everybody's advantage that the Chinese Communists should avoid unnecessary provocative acts. They are most likely to do so if such acts are met with measured retaliation. The Communists have a newspaper in Hong-Kong, and there are other newspapers there which are in sympathy with them. They have news agencies in Hong-Kong and London. Should these be allowed to function if the British information 1 services in Shanghai are prohibited? 1 The Chinese Communists know that they do not hold all the cards. But 1 if we never play our own they may well suspect that we are going to throw in our hand.
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