Modern Review July 1943

R. was observed : It is not for us to criticise the wisdom or the propriety of the Defence of India Act or the rules ultra vices of the Ordinance-making powers of the made thereunder. [...] 1: was the unaniinow request of the part' "The fine step in the proposed drive consists in leaders and this was agreed to by the Ministers that the the collection of statistics of surplus stock available in Government scheme should be circulated so that they the province. [...] About the food drive he said : fresh invitation from the Food Minister to attend a " conference on the morning of the 4th June and the Today is the first day of the food drive which is detailed scheme was not circulated till the night of the being undertaken in every nook and corner of the prSrd June. [...] The failure of the food drive leads to and that one section of the people to quote the langpr age of an official leaflet is grinding the faces of the.poor the inevitable conclusion that the Government before any investigation is made or any statistics are had built up their theory of no shortage on obtained by Government. [...] As a result the country bee before it the resolutions adopted by the Society on the oceReferring to censorship of news in the country —and in this connection he exposed as utterly ionsidercd views on some of the more pressing arbitrary and unjuetifiable the order recently 'and important among the questions agitating the issued against the writings and speeches of Mr.