The Calcutta Weekly Notes January 31 1949

The names that figured with unsavoury Prominence during the investigation were those of Hugh Dalton ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Goernment and at present a member of the Cabinet though without a particular port-folio ; John;Belcher Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade and George Gibson a Governor of the Bank of England and former Trade Union chief. [...] This has gone so far that at the last session of the Congress at Jaipur an effort was made from the floor to amend a resolution asking for probity in public conduct on the part of Congressmen so that ministers at the centre or in the prvinces were specifically included in the 44"LI11.] THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] When the fact of a national emergency is not very patent to reasonable observers the application of emergency provisions for the maintenance of law and order comes in naturally for a certain amount of reprobation even from those who cannot be considered even rmotely to be hostile to the Governmeht in power. [...] Firing on the part of the police and burning of State buses and trains by members of the public caused only the other day a most deplorable sitution which evidenced the existence of serious distempers in the body politic which it must be the earnest endeavour of the Government and the people to seek without the least delay to eradicate. [...] The balance of power in the Far East—and also perhaps in the not very distant future in other regions of the East—is in danger of being upset to such a degree that the Kuomintang leadership has repeatedly asked for even more intensive and extensive assistance than they have been receiving for years from the United States of America the country pre-eminently whose principal head-ache to-day