The Radical Humanist Formerly Independent India - Organ of the Radical Humanist Movement September 18 1949

At the conclusion of the conference the Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture assured that the recommendation would be sympathetically considered by the Government. [...] The goods therefore accumulate leading to the closure of mills and factories leadinagain to the unemployment of -thousands and the consquent decline in the purchasing power of the people. [...] All the same the opposition that the party will voice in the Parliament during the rest of its term will be of great benefit to the democratic forces in the country. [...] It is the considered view of the opposition party that the Congress Party is attempting to concentrate all power influence and authority in the Centre to the prejudice of the units the legislature and the people at large." That is one of the salient points of the new constitution that we have been critcising since long. [...] They have been greatly heartened by the recent statements of General Robert L. Eichelberger formerly commanding the United States Eighth Army in Japan who in urging the strengthening of " the military' defences of Japan " attributed the Communist victories in Asia to the destruction of the Japanese army and the war-weariness of the Chinese people and deplored the fact that Japan was today milit