Patten Book

Re “Murdoch China Dealings Spell Trouble,” by Jim Mann, International Outlook, March 4:

I don’t understand why a book being rejected by a publisher, if it will be published by another (Times Books), is a troubling precedent. I wrote this letter to the editor of The Times. It might be rejected for publication, too. Is it a troubling precedent? Mann forgot the beauty of our democratic society--you have a choice, so does the publisher.

Chris Patten made very little contribution to Hong Kong during his term of governorship. He only introduced his version of democracy to Hong Kong, which upset the former agreement between China and Britain. Patten was belatedly seeking political changes Britain had not bothered to introduce during the century and a half in which it ran the colony. History is given the fair and final judgment.

WYMAN WUN

Rancho Palos Verdes