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The Calcutta Weekly Notes February 6 1950

1950

The Government of India has sent a message to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council which deserves to be quoted in these columns Now that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has finished hearing the last appeal from India the Government of Idia take this opportunity to place on record their deepest appreciation of the valuable services rendered by the Privy Council to India over [...] With the Indian Republic's inauguration on January 26 1950 the office of the Election Commissioner was reported to have been set up and charged with the task of completing election preparations in time for the elections to be held under the new constitution during the winter of 10 50-51. [...] They were : (1) The general elections under the new constitution being likely in the winter of 190-51 the interval between two elections would be short and not really worth while.; (2) New voters' lists being incomplete elections could only be held in West Bengal on the restricted franchise of the Goverment of India Act of 1935; (3) All sections of the people were of the view that an imed [...] We have to study and assess the progress (or lack of progress) of Human Rights in the more than two years that have passed not so much in words as in facts in concrete realities both generally and in U. N. O. and in relation to the various countries we rpresent all the way from West to East from the U. S. A. to China. [...] This is in my view the principle of freeing makind from oppression and domination whther it be personal or industrial feudal or colonial and under whichever of the six heads into which the labours of this Cogress are to be divided it may fall; it is ideed to express it in terms of the greatest struggle in which men have hitherto fought for Human Rights the principle of destroy-
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India
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sarf.100104
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes February 6 1950
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