The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday May 25 1942

Not in the interest of a group of persons who form the Govern= ment for the time being nor in the interest of the permanence of the prevailing system but in public interest. [...] “ Public disorder or the reasoable anticipation or likelihood of public diorder is the gist of the offence.” If the above be the true conception of 81titaii THE CALCUTTA WEEKLE NOTES. [...] To penalise them as seditious is " to do them more honour than they deserve." We have to add that while we welcome the decision of the Federal Court as a most sensible pronouncement reflecting the true view of the offence of sedition we are troubled by the memory of the decision of the Judicial Committee in Wallace-Johnson v. The King reported in 44 C. W. N. 403. [...] It was argued before the Judcial Committee that incitement to violence is one of the essential ingredients of the crime of sedition but their Lordships held that the law of the Gold Coast Colony was to be found in its own Code and not in the English or Scottish cases or glosses derived therefrom. [...] If the acts or words came under the definition of sedition as expressed in the language used in the statute of the country they were seditious irrespective of what the English law regarded as a fundamental requisite.