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...friends have jokingly said that he looked like a Japanese admiral in the regalia of Lord Privy Seal. But towering Mr. Hartshorn should carry well the plumes. He was Postmaster General in the first MacDonald Cabinet of 1924, then became a member of Sir John Simon's India Commission (TiME, Jan. 30. 1928, et seq.) and has just become available for Cabinet rank. A giant from Glamorganshire and president of the South Wales Miners' Federation, he at least looks like just the champion to grapple with unemployment...
...Delhi burned for a $550,000 loss in "mysterious circumstances" concealed by censorship; 3) at the summer palace of Viceroy Baron Irwin at Simla, India, His Excellency showed no sign of weakening in his policy, maintained a firm tone and began to study the first section of the Simon report on India; 4) natives at Poona, a few days after the parade, were preparing further to "revolt" by sending stock to the forests to feed, thus breaking the grazing tax; 5) at Manhattan, the Bishop of Bombay (Methodist Episcopal) warned thus: "Americans seem to have an idea that all India...
However much these three views illustrate typical attitudes on the Indian situation they all come very far from an intelligent appreciation of the affairs which Sir John Simon and his associates spent two years in studying. Since the World War the British Empire has gone under a considerable process of rebuilding and emerged as something entirely new in the history of colonial development, the British Commonwealth of Nations. As such it is a virtual collection of Independent states held together by trade interests, a common heritage, and the royal family...
...thought, for India. So a make-shift arrangement was knocked together to serve in the land of the Ganges. It did not work very well, everyone admits that, and the Nationalists are demanding with an ever more loud voice that India be granted her independence. So the Simon Commission has made an exhaustive examination of the entire Indian scene. Its published report gives a graphic account of the problem which India presents to her rulers, the second section which will appear June 24 will contain recommendations for a solution...
From the intelligent and thorough presentation of the case in the first part of the Simon report it is to be expected that these suggestions when made will be the most helpful thing of their kind official England has had in a long time. One thing is certain, whatever action the British government decides to take on the Indian matter, the question of the future of this tremendous Eastern state will be one of the most important features of the twentieth century. It is a fascinating subject and Americans can not afford to shrug a disinterested shoulder at the fate...