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...Simon and Schuster, Inc. New York City...
...Simon & Schuster ideas are almost invariably happy: this one will be pondered...
Straightway Sir John Simon, chairman of the Commission, famed Liberal barrister, sat briskly down at his desk, last week, and drew up an offer designed to conciliate 318,940,000 Indians, some thousands of whom rioted in Madras, Calcutta & Bombay last fortnight, in protest against the Commission and notably against the fact that no Indian sits upon...
...still this latter protest Sir John Simon offered, last week, to take Seven Wise Indians into his company of Seven Wise Britons. The Indians, he proposed, could be elected by the Indian Legislative Assembly; and he pledged that they would receive in the Commission "equal status throughout the investigation...
...Helped or impeded, the Commission will go forward with its work. Justification of our authority in India lies in the work we have accomplished." Exuberance. Individually the hartal groups "frothed" by burning Sir John Simon and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin repeatedly in effigy, and by sending out to greet the S. S. Rawalpindi, on which the Commission reached Bombay, several "mourning barges," draped in black, flying black flags, and topheavy with zealots who screamed: "Go back! Go back...