Modern Review April 1943

The gravamen of the charge which lie makes is that the Governor of Bengal had not carried out the terms of the Government of India Act and his Letter of Instrutions according to the spirit that he had not consulted and followed the advice of his Ministen. [...] The Federal Court of India recently had to consider the meaning of Rule 34(6) (e) the language of which is identical with that of Section 174A of the Penal Code and they epraised the view that the gist of the offence of sedition and of the offence under Rule 31(6) le) was that the act tended to promote public disorder. [...] rise in his discretion Our Governor shall in the exercise of the powers conferred upon lamb guided by the advice of his Ministers yokes in his opinion so to be guided would be blew sistent with the fulfilment of any of the special responsibilities which are by the said Act corn mitted to him or with the proper discharge of any of the functions which be is otherwise by the said Act required to [...] the evidence of the form of the uprising the evidence of known Congresmen 'personally proved guilty of violent action the evidence of the pamphlets broadcast in the name of the Coigns.--only one answer can he given to the question as to who must bear the responsibility for the mass °prising% and individual crimes which have disgraced and are still disgracing the fair name of India. [...] Before we express our considered view of the merits of the case put forward by the authorities and the spokesmen and commentators they have eployed to carry on propaganda on.their behalf we propose to describe as briefly as possible the nature of some of the materials on the basis of which the British Government have attempted to build charge! of the gravest character against the Indian Natio