The Calcutta Weekly Notes August 6 1945

It shows how the The question of the abolition of the India cobwebs of 'law 'can be neatly swept away with Office and the merger of the India portfolio in the brush of law if one only knows how to the Dominions Secretariat-of-State has been do it. [...] If the reports are fairly veracious the change For several weeks I have been eating rice bound nevertheless to take sonic time since "the question not only of the desirability of the conditioned rice which is the only variety of our c staple food supplied by the Government ratiochange but also of the possibility of the work control in Calcutta. [...] up for the supervision of Indian affairs and of the head office of the East India Company - in THE KING'S SECRETARIAT. [...] With a few eis historically descended from the 18th Century ceptions all statutory functions of a Secretary of Board of Control on the one hand and from the 'State in'England are assigned to a Secretary of board of directors of the East India Company State simply without distinction between one on the other. [...] A second peculiarity of the India department and another on the constitutional Office lies in the fact that its cost is in part not view that the King's Secretariat is one although charged upon British revenues: the British in practice the work is divided by administrative Parliament pays the salary of the Secretary of -arrangements which are periodically altered.