Dominion Status Declaration a Vain Attempt to Placate, the 5 Implacable: India Not a -Nation But a Continent Burma, Doe. 11, Events in India are reaching a critical point.. The Simon Commission, which was sent out by the British Parliament to inquire into Jing of the "Reforms" of 1919, is about to report, after meeting with a mixed reception. Moderate India hailed it as a respon sible, impartial tribunal before Which to ventilate its grave misgovernment: Extremist India scorn~ €d_it, and refused to submit any evidence at all. Meantime these extremists have produced a ce stitution of their own on the lines tither of complete self-government (which they call "Dominion Status"), or else of complete independence outside the British Em-Dive:-and at, a meeting of the All India Congress committed them-mean not political parties, since all are agreed to discuss India on its merits and not as a party question, but we mean parties in the sense of opinion regarding India itself.
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