The Calcutta Weekly Notes February 18 1946

And to the powers that be we wish to point out that the appointment to the permnent incumbency should be such as gives satifaction to the profession and to the public. [...] Casey and his advisers insisted on the sacrosanctity of Dalhousie Square where a students' procession wanted to go and was sought to be prevented by police firing.i The next day the Bengal Government was corpelled by public pressure to lift the ban but the insensate obstinacy of the bureaucracy cost the lives of many Calcutta citizens and injury to limb of many more. [...] The November demontrations held on the issue of the release of the I. N. A. prisoners produced a considerable ipression however and must have been one of the principal reasons for the Commander-iChief's commutation of the sentences on the three leading I. N. A. prisoners who were tried at the Red Fort in Delhi. [...] The Government have fairly succeeed in putting something like a screen over the events of last November and with a lack of propriety that lawyers must particularly notice the Under-Secretary of State for India in Parliment exonerated the police even before the Coroner had come to a finding in the matter. [...] It is quite patent and has been painfully so for years now that the Viceroy's Executive Council irresponsible and unresposive to the people's will is incapable of the tremendous task of mobilising improving and husbanding the food resources of the country and of rousing the patriotic fervour to a pitch which would make hoarding and profiteering fairly ipossible.