Lonilon, Feb, 17.
Mhe Earl of Birkonhend, Secretary. Jof State for india, in a'speech at Doncaster to-day addressed plain words to the people of India, drawing attention to their attitude towards the Simon Commission, shall make it as plain as any words at my command will enable me," he declared, ''that, with the assistance of the Indian Logislatures, or without, this Commission will carry its task to its conclusion."
He said that if political opinion in India, which was a very small fringe of the whole of india, cho to remain aloof, nevertheless, Commission's work would be performed under the present Government or whatever Government succeeded it, Lord "Birkenhead asked those pledged to boycott the Commission whether the sophisticated electorate of Britain was fikely to be persuade. ed by such means that the political-minded in India had proved them-golves At for a great extension of their present Constitution. pointed out that, on the other hand, by ce-operation' they might easily '60 have proved.
The Secretary of State for India paid @ tribute to Mr. Ramsay Macuonold and other responsible: leaders of the Labour Party for carrying out what they had conceived to be their duty—Reuter,
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