The New Review October 1943

And it is the would be in the Group it would be the duty of the State to protect these and duty of the Councils to protect the to regulate and direct their activities interests of the small as well as the towards the general welfare of Society. [...] Gradually one-third of the total raiload about 50 million tons had come to be taken by rivers and canals : the Rhine the Elbe the Oder the Danube especially after the opening in 1938 of the Midland canal connecing the Oder with the Elbe and the Rhine and putting Berlin and Central Germany in communication with the east and the North Sea and with the west and the Baltic. [...] With the surrender of Italy (which relieves the railway traffic north-south to a certain extent) and with the menace of invasion on the Atlantic coast or in the Balkans the whole transport system must be reorganised to accomodate the flow of men and material to the west and to the south west. [...] In the opinion of specialists the diet of an average Indian is overweighted on the side of rice and other cereals and deficient in dairy products fruits and green vegetables.' Hence in the formulation of the long-term policy the Government should provide measures for (1) enhancing the income of the poor people (2) increaing the supply of the foodstuffs by stimulating home production or imp [...] We have to confine our attention to the area under the cultivation in British India alone for the well-known reason that the agricultural statistics of the States are neither complete nor as accurate as those in the Provinces ; and even in the Provinces the estmates of area are more accurate than those of the yields.' The chief defect of this method is that is does not take into account the v