Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday March 17 1946

Simms filed on either of these petitions as affording any reliable answer to the assertion of the petitioners that all the circumstances of their cases have not been considered in the light of the state of affairs current in India on the 7th January 1946. [...] On that date as the petitioners point out there was no successful prosecution of a war for the mass movement to hinder and the various committees of the Congress previously unlawful had been legalized and the members of the Working Committee of the Congress Party and its leader had been released from detention. [...] A university worth the name must be predominantly for the prevention and cure of the diseases of the poor villagers of India. [...] The trouble however is that the services have got into a rut and even the Viceroy trying to stir it up cannot succeed uless the details of the organization are worked out with the completest co-operation between the official machinery and the public organizations. [...] The deterioration of food led to the deterioration of health in spite of the compensating"4s HARIJAN Match..17 1946 factors in the form of better housing and sanitation in the second case.