![]() Chinese, with its dialects, became his first language. He also contacted cooperatives in distant parts of the country. Townsend lived for five years in this communal but hopeful poverty. They established medical centres and schools. All members took part in policy discussions and shared any profits. ![]() These were rural industrial units that produced blankets, bricks, paper and ceramics. After ineffectual hospital work, he found a place in the Chinese industrial cooperatives. ![]() Terrible sights began to put an end to Townsend's pacifism, though not his idealism. ![]() Amid air raids he rescued a truck from the burning docks, then drove down the Burma Road to southwestern China. In 1940, after only one year studying history at Worcester College, Oxford, Townsend registered as a conscientious objector, began to learn Chinese and joined the Friends ambulance unit. ![]()
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