China has a mission

The future of the world is inevitably bound up with the future of China, Mr Frank Thorn told a meeting of the New Zealand-China Society recently.

Mr Thorn, President of the Wellington District Freezing Workers' Union, has recently returned from a visit to China. He was greatly impressed by the tremendous advances in that country since he last saw it in 1938.

The young people of China have a sense of mission and are working toward a great future.

"Chinese primary-school children have a much greater political understanding than New Zealand children," said Mr Thorn, "and as for the older children, they were quite above me."

Questioned as to whether he thought the US had territorial ambitions in China, he answered. "There is no doubt about it."