The Eastern Economist April 13 1951

The freedom of the individual was a more real and truer test of the republican democracy than the form of the administrative structure or even the adult franchise granted for the first time; and the importance of the freedoms was enhanced by the confidence in the tradtions established by the judiciary. [...] The disatifaction which has now led to the formulation of amendment proposals has partly but only partly b:eri the dismay caused by the more unacceptable of the 'pronouncements of the judiciary; but for the rest it also seems to have been a product of the fear of a wider exercise of the citizen's privileges arising out of these liberties. [...] China The Purge in Practice THOSE who were persuaded by the relatively pacific ai methods of the Peoples' Government of China in the earlier days of the revolution to believe that Mao Tse Tung's dictatorship of the peoples' democracy" is somehow different from the "dictatorship of the proletariat" of the sanguinary Bolshevik type at least in its attitude towards human rights must have been serio [...] A BANKER'S QUESTIONS The speech of Lala Yodhraj Chairman of the Punjab National Bank has provided yet another istance of the search by the members of the business community for constructive solutions to the economic problems of the day. [...] SHORTER NOTES THE PROBLEM OF BEGGARY The observance of the Anti-Beggary week in Bombay brings to the fore one of the intractable prblems of the day in this country.