The New Review July 1944

The first consists of four parts : (a) The Delegate of the Polish Government who represents the The Sign April 1944 FROM THE WORLD OF JOURNALS uthority of the Cabinet and is endowed 7ith administrative and executive ∎owers ; his chief duty is to organise nd to maintain on the highest possible evel the secret Polish administration laving his representatives in each )rovince of the country. [...] The third part of Underground Poland consists of the political reprsentation of the four most powerful parties of the country : (i) The Polish Socialist Party (ii) The Peasant Party (iii) The National Party (iv) The Party of Work. [...] This comparative inferiority of sea-traffic against road and rail transport makes it the more necessary for the Allies to keep the initiative and shows that the sabotage of the Nazi system of communications is the greatest help we can expect from the 'Resistance' forces on the continent. [...] Yet did not the Government of India by a devolution of authority permit the Provincial Governments to bring ruin and disaster to the railway system by encouraging the haphazard growth of motor transport and the indicriminate building of roadways ? This error is at least12 THE NEW REVIEW being avoided in the internal economy of air services but the position of the railways road services co [...] In the Road-Rail Transport Introductory Report submitted in 1933 to the International Chamber of Commerce by the Committee of Independent Experts the principle is stated that 'the function of the State is not to maintain the status quo or to favour one means of transport at the expense of another but to create the requisite conditions for secuing the maximum efficiency of all means of transpor