BENGAL FAMINE
MR. L. S, AMERY CRITICISED ‘INVISIBLE STOCKS OF RICE’ (10 a.m.) CALCUTTA, Oct. 15. “If Mr. Amery did a good job occasionally instead of making inane speeches lie would really prove himself useful.” This comment on Mr. L. S. Amery’s statement in the House of Commons on the Bengal food situations was made by the Moslem daily, the Mornings News. It suggests that Mr. Amery, the Secretary for India, should arrange to lend Italian merchant shipping which has come under Allied control. Other newspapers are also severely critical of Mr. Amery’s statement. The British-owned Statesman says: “Thoughtful observers find themselves sadly out of tune both factually and emotionally with Mr. Amery’s speech with his criticism of the mistakes of previous Bengal Ministers.” “The Hindustan Standard says: “The Bengal death-roll is mounting, and Mr. Amery’s invisible help is matched only by the invisible stocks of itice in Bengal.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21227, 16 October 1943, Page 3
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