To, the Editor of the "Nowr-Ciwa Dat News.*
Siz,—About a month ago there appeared in your columns an excellent Editorial on the British
Janomalous position of the Committee Residents' Associaton and the Jof that organisation. It is sur-[prising almost to amazing that that rial drew no reply, either from the Association or from any of its members. While the reason for the continued reticence of the Committee of the Aesociation is disturbing to many mombers'of the obscure as the reticence itself, is Association, the fact that no mem-the other day, with the remark that. ber has openly criticised the conduct others think a3 I do. His rejoinder of the Association may be due (I }was to the effect that the heavy exe have been told it ie due) to the fre-Jpenses incurred in running the Ag~ quently whispered fear that sociation are mostly borne privately, sion ree competition, it asha fe pel it were shanghai in these daya of depres. jand that "anyway, what do you ex: eet for a dollar a year?
1 was nonplussed. Thad never publicly to. writs, or say, or hint considered it in that light. I had anything which might appear to be feritial of men of the calibre and had given it, And looking down. the imply been, asked for my dollar and influence of those on the Committee st of the members of the Com= opinion, such" a viewpoint is BRAS In my "humble mittee, I feel that they, too, have not looked and do not look on it in rubbish. There is no question of that ud "belling the cat," and I, for one, have the conviction that the Com? prestige mittee, far from resenting criticism fand British interests in China are meant to be destructive, Met weighed in the balance of con-Mul welcome, "And so) with tribution, and that the "small per-what T think, with an addendum t9 Preamble, T will proceed son" is az keen for the development Jand success of the Association as the effect that the views Tam about express are by no. means mine But the "small person" would like alone. the Association to be properly spective members was "held The inaugural gathering of profounded, and would like occasionally to be told what is going on. 'The November, 1951. The. ballot for such members of the Committee as small person" still, I believe, re-Jgards Mr. Ranald MacDonald as his fealled for ballot took place. in' the special representative on the Com-same month; and the frst meeting mittee, It may be remembered how of the elected and. nominated Ca Jat the inaugural gathering of pro fittee was held in" December. pective members, Mr. MacDonald twas widely and confidently expected preached the doctrine of a logical that the frst meeting of the' Com-fand reasonable democracy in the mittee would quickly be followed by Association. I, too, still believe in a first meeting of the Association it Mr, MacDonald and refuse to enter-being, a meeting. whereat to discus {sin any idea that ho was prating. Jand decide on. auch matters Will not Mr. MacDonald at least Gonalittion, "ules, By-Laws, and Jcome a little more into the open, and anything and ever re that the altairs of" the Association tell us if and when that democracy. is to emerge from the mist of should be conducted in a manner reserve by which it is encompassed?
while. probably undefined in 'C. W, HAMPSON, Law, is s0 strongly entrench-
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