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...Ilearst, An American Phenomenon-by John K. Winkler, Simon & Schuster...
After a carefully staged wait of more than a month, after keying world expectation to highest attainable pitch, Sir John Simon released last week the final section of his famed Report on India (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928, et seq.) the section containing his Commission's recommendation of What Is To Be Done...
...they ruffled the 344 pages of this crisp, blue-bound volume, most observers wondered how much the Simon Commission had been influenced by St. Gandhi's spectacular campaign for independence (TIME, Jan. 6, et seq.). They found Sir John's own characteristic answer in his last section-section 369 of Part Twelve, the one ending, "All of which we submit for Your Majesty's gracious consideration." It opens magnificently thus...
Suppress Dyarchy, Evoke Federation. Despite their pretense that the crisis created by St. Gandhi did not exist, the Simon commissioners show both adaptability and energy of thought. They advise three major steps...
Emergency Measures. As in the case of most concessions by masters to subject peoples, the Simon report contains qualifications such that the Viceroy and his subordinate governors could "in cases of emergency" resume substantially their present powers and put down such a movement as St. Gandhi's by the sword...