The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Noted of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday February 11 1924

The release of Mahatma Gandhi on the morning of the 5th of February last is a very wise Ind humane move on the.part of the Government. [...] Assume that the Bombay Government diagreed with the Government of India with rgard to the wisdom and propriety of the proscutions referred to the Governor of Bombay could hold direct communication with the Secretary of State for India just as the GovenoGeneral and then the decision as also the responsibility would be that of the Secretary of State. [...] The announcement in the Daily Herald the labour organ that the release was the act of the MacDonald ministry lends support to our view. [...] of the article appears to think that the acceptance of the principle of equality by the system of " international constitutional law which is developing round the political institutions set up by the League of Nations will be a political danger to the latter. [...] The doctrine of the legal equality of states is one of the postulates of international law.