The Eastern Economist May 25 1951

The main difference in the position of the press and the citizen as a result of the enactment of the amendment is not the mere enlargement of Parlimentary legislative authority for the use of the future as the Prime Minister claimed but the revival of the entire range of restrictive Press Laws which were in operation under British rule and which are in theselves exhaustive enough as the Pr [...] The gravamen of the Law Minister's criticism was that the lengths to which the Supreme Court and High Courts have gone to question the acts of the Executive during the last few months was due to their refusal to follow two important doctrines of interpretation enunciated by the Supreme Court of the United States namely the doctrine of implied powers and the doctrine of the state police power. [...] The basis for the invention of the theory of State police power again was the nomention of the specific field of authority of the States in the U.S. [...] The Law Minister was only seeking to escape from the consequences of the policy of the framers which overlaid the 395 Articles of the Constitution with such elaborate details with the deliberate intention of leaving as little as possible to the discretion of the Courts. [...] A. to the terms of the Cairo declaration about the return of Formosa to China the U. S. is ready with the retort that the declaration only mentioned the Republic of China and not the Chinese People's Republic." The essence of the situation is that the Soviet Union cannot have it both ways and since the other non-Communist Powers will be expected generally to agree to proceed with the Peace Treat