MR. CASEY HORRIFIED
CONDiTiONSM CALCUTTA
Rec. 10.30 a.m. BOMBAY, December 3. "I have been horrified by what I have. seen," said Mr. R. G. Casey, Governor of Bengal, in a statements after a tour of the Calcutta slums incognito.: "I have seen something of tflie way in which hundreds of thousands of Calcutta's citizens are obliged to live. Human beings cannot ■ allow other human beings to continue to exist under these conditions?
■ 'T&m not' interested, in who has been for allowing these conditions to come into existence, and to continue to exist. My only interest is-that these conditions should be improved, and neither politics nor vested interests should be allowed to stand in the way;
- "The people of Calcutta have the right to ask in six months' time what has been done, about it."
Mr. Casey walked through dingy lanes and along open sewers, and entered hovels where he questioned the inhabitants.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 6
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