The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) July 1931

Tile non-1931] THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND INDIA 3 inclusion of Russia in the League membership is another matter which serves to detract from the value of the decisions of the League in the sphere of their practical application; for Russia is a single big factor in the world to-day standing all by-itself for a principle of political and economic organization unheard of in the history of world befor [...] The defection of America on the one hand and the segregtion of Russia on the other are to a large extent responsible for the present inadequate realization by the League of its ideals as an international body -; and this feeling is only accentuated when it is realized that the European members of the League have not yet come fully to appreciate the impOrtance of the viepoint represented by A [...] The British Dominions of Canada South Africa and Australia have as a result of the resolutions of the Imperial Conferences of 1926 and 1930 attained to the position of being de facto " independent states subject only to the authority of the Crown; and there has been going on a process of devolution of authority from the British Parliament to the Parliament of Dominions a process which bids fa [...] The introduction of quarterly sales of limited quantities of salt by auction had an immediate effect upon the revenue and the fifth report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the affairs of the East India Company noticed with satisfaction in 1812 that the average net revenue of the last three years under the new system had riten to C 1 30.180. [...] Add to the cost price of salt the duty leviable in each year and you get the wholesale price of salt.1931] PICTURE OF THE SALT INDUSTRY 25 The following are some of the figures showing the rate paid to the Molunghee and the wholesale price of salt at the Agency Goias in the Fifties.