Foreign News: WHAT TO SEE IN CHINA

London's influential and liberal Economist had a few words of parting advice for ex-Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his fellow Socialists as they set forth on their junket to Communist Peking. Excerpts:

I HAVE been exposed to lots of eyewash in my time, and I know it when I see it," remarked the Leader of the Opposition. In his time Mr. Attlee has undoubtedly shown that he can recognise eyewash. But in the past it has not been his custom to submit meekly to serving the purposes of a propaganda machine that is hostile to...

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