Pride and Poverty Miss Savitri Shahani, D. Barton Powers of
the Police Miss Jane Buxton Authenticity Anthony Besch Patriarch of the Psyche R. T. Oerton The Princess Casamassima Dr. F. R. Lea vis 'No Trial' Act Ronald Segal Roman Pavement at Woodchester G. E. Whadpole The Case of Mandy Rice-Davies A. Whigham Price Reviving Local Government R. S. Rowland St. David's Theatre Lord Aberdare Christian Burial Dr. Herbert 0. Mackey Dry Oloroso Sherries T. A. Layton PRIDE AND POVERTY SIR,—It was refreshing to read the two rejoinders to CoIm Brogan's article in the latest issue of your paper.
Lots of the do-gooders here do not realise that Asian students in the West arc rarely themselves members of underprivileged families or groups. If they did put on a humble, and what is bound to degenerate into an ingratiating, attitude, it would be sheer hypocrisy. That they keep their pride—so dis- tasteful to the author—is indeed praiseworthy.
What perhaps is lacking is a sharper awareness of the problems of groups other than their own in the countries they come from. What is needed is not a surrender of pride, but a widening of social perspective, and thence of social conscience. SAVITRI SIIAIIANI Crosby Hall, SW3
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