The New Review July 1947

If there is any one principle that sums up the essence of a free and consttutional government it is that of the 'rule of law ' which as Dicey said in his classic study of the 'Law of the Constitution ' means in the first place the 'supremacy or predominance of regular 14 as opposed to the influence of arbitrary power and excludes the existence of arkrariness of prerogative or even of wid [...] The Christian spirit is exemplfied by the cordial hospitality the glAeiousFROM THE WORLD OF JOURNALS V courtesy and the generous charity of the people. [...] Both in the Kumintang campaigns in the earlier civil war and in the Japanese campaigns in North China the real struggle had come in the process of reducing the Communist base areas by gradually advancing a network of forts and blockade lines. [...] The solution which the Constituent Assemlies will give to the problem of anguages in the Central and Provincial Services is the first step; one can expect that it will be taken in the line of stern realism. [...] It was first of all because and on behalf of the people of British India that British paramountcy developed out of the treaties and sanads and out of the political usage of the Political Dpartment of the Government of India.