INDIAN GOVERNMENT

Evening Star, Issue 19710, 10 November 1927, Page 6

INDIAN GOVERNMENT

THE STATUTORY COMMISSION COMMENT ON PERSONNEL. (British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright. RUGBY, November 9. (Received November 10, at noon.) The members of the Statutory Commission on Indian Reform, whose names were officially announced yesterday, expect that their duties will occupy them for nearly two years. Tho intention is to conduct a preliminary inquiry in India. They will leave London early next year, returning after a few months to England, and proceeding again to India in order to devote the winter months to taking evidence. Commenting on the personnel of the Commission, tho chairman of which is Sir John Simon, tho distinguished lawyer and Liberal leader, ‘ The Times’ says:—“Not only from the point of view of reassuring tho people of India from the outset that tho Commission will be guided by those progressive ideas which aro associated with Liberalism, but because it has brought a brain of singular clarity to bear upon an extraordinarily complicated problem, the Government has been both wise in appointing out of its own ranks for the chairmanship, and fortunate in enlisting Sir John Simon. The broad verdict of the personnel of tho Commission is that the chairman, us is right, is the outstanding figure, and that his intelligential predominance makes it definitely a liberal character, and that for tho rest it-consists of men of industry, common sense, and good temper, sufficiently varied in their political views to be representative of Parliament and sufficiently free from egoists to work in harmony.”