FAMINE IN INDIA
MR. AMERY CRITICISED
CALCUTTA, October 14. "If Mr. L. S. Amery, Secretary of State for India and Burma, did a good job occasionally instead of making inane' speeches he would really prove himself useful." This comment on Mr; Amery's statement in the House of Commons on the Bengal food situation is made by the Moslem "Daily Morning News." It suggested that Mr. Amery should arrange for the loan of Italian merchant shipping which has come under Allied control.
Other newspapers are also severely critical of Mr. Amery's statement about food supplies for India. The Britishowned "Calcutta Statesman" says that thoughtful observers find themselves sadly out of tune, both factually and emotionally, with Mr. Amery's speech, except for his criticism of the mistakes of previous Bengal ministries. The Hindustani "Standard" says that the Bengal death-roll is mounting and that Mr. Amery's invisible help is matched only -by the invisible stocks of rice in Bengal.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 93, 16 October 1943, Page 7
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