The Calcutta Weekly Notes December 31 1945

The Viceroy’s speech to the meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce is a kind of “ hardy annual ” of considerable political signficance. [...] “ Congress the minorities of whom the Muslims are the most numerous and important the rulers of Indian States and the British Goernment.” There is something ominous about this statement: it is perhaps the Anglo-Saxon way—we prefer not to use an adjective that springs at once to our mind—of showing the mailed fist behind a not-very-velvety glove. [...] With the rest of our countrmen we ask lish Bar who is the Chairman of an all-parties' for the release forthwith of all political prisoners a committee to campaign for the release of these and make a special mention of those whose case prisoners. [...] The opinion of Lodge J. was of course obiter dictum and now that the The source of the opinions of the text-book English Court has decided that such a marriage writers was the passage in the judgment of Lord would be recognised by it as valid for at least Penzance in Hyde v. Hyde that marriage as the purpose of giving relief to the woman with understood in Christendom might be defined whom [...] in that her husband is living is an Abaruddha 452 and 323 of the Penal Code was bound to Stree and is entitled to maintenance out of the put to the accused points brought out in the estate of her paramour.