dated July 11, 1951: State of war with Germany ended

Britain, France, America and 44 other countries officially ended on the 9th of July state of war with Germany. An official notice in the London Gazette said the formal state of war with Germany was terminated as from 4 p.m. (British Summer Time), ``without prejudice to the Occupation Statute, or to the decision of questions, the settlement of which must await the conclusion of a treaty.'' On the same day, President Frank Truman asked Congress in Washington to end state of war between the United States and Germany. India, Pakistan, Bolivia, and Ecuador had already terminated state of war with Germany.

The law and tea

From the Editorials: ``We in the South have a well-earned reputation for making and enjoying coffee at its best. But when it comes to judging tea, we yield the palm to our friends in the north. The fact that they imbibe incredible quantities of `cha' has not blunted their judgment as to what constitutes good tea. Being a connoisseur of the beverage is one thing; it is quite another to know what makes tea taste so good. For instance, would the quality be the same if the stalk is brewed along with the leaf? This has become the subject of legal action against certain firms. The municipal authorities of Calcutta prosecuted the firms on a charge of `storing, exposing, and offering for sale, tea adulterated with foreign matter'. The magistrate convicted them on the grounds that `tea stalks were not human food, and that they had been mixed with tea leaves for increasing the weight and lowering the strength and quality of tea'. It is not likely that firms of long standing and an established reputation to maintain, would deliberately resort to adulteration. It is not unlikely also that it is normal practice to mix stalk while manufacturing tea. Dr. B. C. Roy, Chief Minister of West Bengal, has requested the municipal authorities not to start further prosecutions for sale of tea containing stalk, until and enquiry is properly made into the definition of tea as it now appears in the Calcutta Municipal Act. The sale of the present stocks will be allowed provided that the stalk content does not exceed a certain percentage which should be clearly marked on the label of the packets.''

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