INDIA COMMISSION

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16493, 10 November 1927, Page 11

INDIA COMMISSION

TO COMMENCE NEXT YEAR APPROVAL OP PERSONNEL o (Biitish Official Wireless.) Bee. 2 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 9. 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. The intention is to conduct a preliminary inquiry in India, They will leave London early next year, returning after a few months to Knglaud and proceeding again to India in order to devote winter months to the taking of evidence. Commenting on the personnel of the commission, the chairman of which is Sir John Simon, the distinguished lawyer and Liberal leader, the Times says “ Not, only from the point of view of reassuring the people of India, from the outset that the commission will be guided by those progressive ideas which are associated with Liberalism, but because they have brought brains of singular clarity to bear uppn an extraordinarily complicated problem, tho Government. has been both wise in appointing a chairman outside of its own ranks, and fortunate in enlisting Sir John Simon.” The broad verdict on the personnel of the commission is that the chairman, as is- right, is an outstanding figure; that his perclominance of intelligence makes it definitely of a Liberal character. and that for the*rest it consists of men of industry, common sense, and good temper, sufficiently varied in tliei” political views to Be representative of Parliament, and sufficiently free from egoism to work in harmony.