He was not alone in his negative judgment of the country. V.S. Naipaul, acclaimed novelist and commentator, had also delivered an equally scathing verdict after a short visit to Mauritius in 1967.
This was well encapsulated in the title of the piece he wrote, and which he obviously liked as he retained it as the title of his subsequent book, which included the Mauritius piece along with several other longer articles of his. What was the title?