The Eastern Economist August 11 1950

Ever since the return of the Soviet delegate to the Security Council as President on the 1st August the deliberations of the Council have not been turned on substantial issues--in striking contrast to the businesslike manner in which the Council funtioned in the first three days of the Korean war—and this tussle over what is procedural and what is not has now become vital because it derides wh [...] The fact that an issue like that of Korea which was quite capable of being investigated by an agency of the United Nations was not allowed to be so dealt with during the last two years by the U. N. Comission due to the Soviets' refusal to provide access to that body but was put to the test of the sword has prvided clinching proof of the impossibility of working the Charter when there was no [...] THE EASTERN ECONOMIST 209 THE WEEK'S NOTES THE MINISTRY OF WISHFUL THINKING Like an authentic official document hatched entirely within the Secretariat the Report on Secretariat Rorganisation which was laid on the table of the House last Thursday concludes with the words that the prcess of bringing about the necessary changes in the organisation will not be completed when the set-up of th [...] The quota of one-third from out of mill production was recently withdrawn in the case of spining mills and considerably whittled down in the case of weaving mills but the arrangements for the markeing of this "free" yarn and cloth have been so unsatifactory that retailers have now demanded the complete withdrawal of the free sale concession; in conditions in which the exporter may sell h [...] The cumulative effect on the Wholesale Price Index of restoring the original retailers' margins are bound to be very considerable and if Government rules out this easy means of solving the problems of the retail trade the need to prevent blacmarketing and to assure the plentiful supply of reasonably priced cloth in the home markets will become all the greater.