tua's Miuttows The" Revelutionacy 'Struggles from 1037 to 1095—By Ana" 'Louise' Strong. Gollancz, London. 15/-.
Miss Strong has travelled in China, Russia and Central Asia, She can write well. But she is so evidently determined to prove the Communist, ease that her sense of proportion and her sense of accuracy are sadly damaged, with the result that this, book cannot be recommended for those who desire to obtain a reliable guide to China's recent history. Particularly is it dimieult to extract the: grain from the chaff when Miss Sirong's publishers do not take the elementary precaution of providing the book with an index. This perhaps may be due to their own difficulties in sponsoring her tirade of 400 odd pages. As an example of her desperate desire {o associate the imperialistic powers with the wickedness of General Chiang Kai-shek it may be sufMlelent to quote the fol-Towing passage on almost the last. page of the book: fa-distance of 1000 miles or so is
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.