The Calcutta Weekly Notes March 7 1949

Since our issue of the 21st ultimo we had the advantage of reading in the papers the discussions on the draft bill in the legislature and also to go through the bill somewhat closely. [...] in prolonging the life of the Act with the help of the oxygen-pump as it were the West Bengal Government is sweeping away the rule of law is suppressing liberty and is stifling human conscience. [...] The legislators should function as the faithful spokesmen of the peoples' urges and aspirations arid revoke their wrong decision and tackle the problem as a whole v.-ith sympathy understanding and insight by removing the basic causes of the unrest in the province and by constructive state65"livi III mown 1109126. [...] Thus he could help the maintenance of law and order and the promotion of liberty and the consquent well-being of the people. [...] In some instances the author has also analysed the facts of the case for ascertaiing the true principle and in so doing has summarised facts of important cases even at the risk of increasing the bulk o f the work.