Word: simons
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...observant foreign diplomat said privately afterward, "It was a wedding without the bride." What the Indian Round Table Conference can do is to rehash the Simon Report and another made last week by Viceroy Lord Irwin (see col. 3), write its own report, possibly agree on a draft text for a new Indian Constitution, finally present all this as a fait accompli to the Indian National Congress, Gandhi & Friends...
...Simon Report in two tomes totaling 753 pages which were three years in the making (TIME, May 26 et ante...
...seriousness a prominent Indian delegate estimated that to deal with, without skimping, the questions which occupied Sir John Simon and Lord Irwin for 36 months, the conference must sit for at least 34 months. But the British cry last week was "Speed!" The MacDonald government tentatively set three months as the conference time limit...
...John Simon, president of the Board of Inquiry, directed Inspector McWade to a great model of the R-IOI which hung from a scaffold beside his bench like an effigy dangling from a gallows, there fired questions for the witness to answer tangibly...
Slim hopes that the conference might succeed were based last week on a plan to be offered by the Viceroy of India, Baron Irwin, as an alternative to the recommendations of the Simon Report (TIME, June 30 et seq.). It was expected that Lord Irwin would urge an extension of the system of "dyarchy." Under this system the less important provincial offices of the Government of India are administered by natives, all the really vital departments, such as Police, being "reserved." To carry "dyarchy" a little further would be an important concession from the British point of view, would...