The Archive · 1929

Simon Commission in India

Display of Hatred and Assault by! motion of the Commissioners changed atmosphere and' tinct stiffening of attitude" the part of the members of the I indian Statutory Commission as the result of the demonstrations of malevolence and hate at Cawnpore, Lahore, (elsewhere, Mr. Avthut Commission has not been abandoned but is a "pleasure" referred, and when the Commission returns to Calcutta from Assan carly in the new year unseemly demonstrations and sets of hooliganism are ti be Moore (formerly of "The Ti Replying to an address presented by the United Provinces Moslem League, Sir John Simon said the Royal Commission have come to India as the friends of all classes: and creeds with the fixed resolve to set aside all preference and partiality and to make a report to the best of its ability, of results of what it finds and what it learns "The forces of ce-operation," he said, "are always more powerful than the forces of We thank you for the assurance that you appreciate the efforts which we are maki discover the realities of the problem and to contribute, without Sear or favour, to its better un-

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