The Eastern Economist October 14 1949

No data are available to assess the financial result of the working of the all-up air mail scheme but it is significant to rmember that part of the benefit of the scheme was diverted to the night operator. [...] Matthai's complaints during the devaluation debate—prominently featured in the British Press— underline alike the stresses and strains within the steling area and the lack of grace with which the British Cabinet accepted the shot in the arm.' France spoke of a trade war immediately following the devaluation of the pound. [...] The administrative control of the High Courts over the civil judiciary which was wideed by the Government of India Act of 1935 had made for complete independence of the civil judiciary from the influence of the executive. [...] The Madras scheme will still leave the security provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code as securely in the hands of the Collectors and their suordinates as hitherto and there is not much substance in the fear that the reform may prove inexpedient in the present context. [...] The opposition on the part of the Western Powers to the Soviet proposal at the last session for the grant of independence to thes3 colonies after a ten-year period of U. N. trusteeship arose on the ground that Russian participation in the administration would make for conflict be.ween the powers and neglect of the welfare of the inhabitants of these areas.