Sir John Simon on the Results of the Visit to India New Delhi, Mar, 27.
Speaking at a farewell luncheon in honour of the Statutory Commission, Sir John Simon, the Chair~ man, said that the Commission had every reason to be grateful for the and traditional courtesy of His hope that when its. purpose and attitude were better understood much suspicion would melt away had been largely fulfilled. The Commission was not dissatisfied with the results of his proposals on February 6, for the future conduct of the investigation. As he studied the vast task laid on his shoulders he was more and more convinced that it was on the gil of India that the reconciliation of the East and West must be accomplished. "It is in this land," he declared, "that we may yet achieve that understanding between East and West without which both are 30 much poorer, but with which there is a future of happiness, confidence and progress for India and Britain alike."—Reuter,
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