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The Calcutta Weekly Notes April 24 1950

1950

" The question before West Bengal " India's Home Minister conceded " is not so much whether the agreement is good or bad benficial or harmful but whether in the face of the stark reality of a partitioned Bengal under two independent Governments and placed in the present set of circumstances any other peaceful means is open to it co bring hope and faith and succour and rlief to the unf [...] West Bengal to-day needs all the sympathy and help that it can get from the rest of India and I can assure my -friends here that they have that sypathy and help in full measure." (Italics ours) We must of course be grateful to the Sardar for his kind reference to " sypathy and help in full measure " but we wish he did not use the kind of language whie.h adds insult to Bengal's injury. [...] The report of the Joint Parlimentary Committee on the Indian White Paper and the Government of India Act 1935 both bear the imprint of his mind and his work As Chief Justice of the Federal Court he brought his great gifts to hear on his work and some of his judgments courageous and perspicacious will long continue to be treasured. [...] Anyhow one of these "badits " in Malaya an Indian by the name of Sambasivam who was leader of the Malayan trade union movement was sentenced to death for alleged possession of a revolver ; a fter much effort on the part of the Indian consul his case was taken before the Privy Council which ordered his release; Malayan authorities (und'er orders presumably of the British Labour Government [...] There had arisen recently difference of opinion between the two Judges in 4 or 5 Civil Appeals but ultimately it was resolved by affirming the decision of the lower Court without referring the matter to a third Judge there being none at the present moment in view of the fact that the poet (\f one Judge is lying vacant for more than one year.
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4
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100104
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes April 24 1950
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