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...Simon Report. As Bombay was flogged. London settled down cozily to read the ''Simon Report." Last week this state paper of more than 400 pages, selling for three shillings (75?), became such a best-seller that within three days of its publication His Majesty's stationery office announced that the last copy of the first printing (17,000 copies) had been "distributed." Telegrams ordering more poured in from booksellers all over the British Isles, from clubs, even from "circulating libraries" which usually rent only fiction. England was excited. England knew that Sir John Simon and his commission...
With his big job done Sir John Simon returned last week to his rich legal practice; and to their jobs also returned his six commissioners (four Conservatives, two Laborites). Sir John was the Liberal on his so-called "nonpartisan" commission which actually had a Conservative majority...
...Insult to India." Vague though it is, the No. 1 section of the Simon Report slams the door on St. Gandhi's demand for independence now. It declares that the goal of British policy must be: "Progressive realization of responsible government in British India as an integral part of the Empire...
...convention they buried the old economic doctrine of Depression following Inflation in never-ending cycles. This year big & little U. S. men of business have talked little of new eras, and the Silence of 1930 has come down on the Song of 1929. But in Paris last week Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of the New York Times, told the American Club of Paris not of a new era but of a new epoch. After admitting that business conditions throughout the world were not entirely satisfactory, that in some regions conditions were indeed acute, Mr. Ochs said: "I am an optimist...
Musical?FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (TIME, Dec. 9), SIMPLE SIMON (TIME, March 3), STRIKE UP THE BAND (TIME, Jan. 27), SONS o' GUNS (TIME...