The Calcutta Weekly Notes June 30 1947

The maintenance of its present juritiliction over both parts of Bengal would preserve in the mind of every Bengalee the fullest assurance and confidence in the matter of judicial relief and protection. [...] And this sense of security would be strengthened by the fact that the lower Courts would continue to be under the supervision and superintendence of the Calcutta High Court as at present. [...] The Governments of the two provinces of Bengal and the Government of Assail') may by joint deliberation decide the terms and conditions that would ensure a proper appointment of judges and suitable reprsentative of all the three provinces on the Bench of their common High Court that may be designated as Federal Court of Bengal and Assam. [...] The " consent " of a section of the people in both the provinces having been thus obtained under what in legal phraseology is called "duress " the wily foreigners have taken note of the " volutary " demand of the people of the two ufortunate provinces for partition and in their. [...] The matter of fixation of boundaries between Nationalist Bengal and the other half of the Province is a life-and-death question for Nationalists and we think that canvasing in a vital matter like this on behalf of certain busy-bodies of the legal profesion who aspire to be promoted to the rank of Nationalists overnight by merely putting on a Gandhi cap or wearing a khaddar (Midi for a day