FUTURE OF INDIA

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19158, 15 November 1927, Page 9

FUTURE OF INDIA

COMMISSION'S TASK. ABIG UNDERTAKING. itfnl6S orncuL w»»««.) BUGBY, November 13. chairman oft repres ents in wnsJ i:uen ytM }j refers I' arli ' :1 nrt difficult task before the f Tlndia It is a responsibility peop[« fI JJL" d, £ denied or evaded for ?HS3?n history, and in the facts l future of India .» 'l'. tn „ f I( enteful progress, as all m * °BrS ntensely desire, this can Crrtt X,,,t o. lv bv the action of the with the "" ..iinn of India itself. *XaTthU .".provided for by a '"° B of investigation and consuita?hirh the work of the Commrs''!!«'is the first stage. does not E o p to Iny Jah anv idea of imposing Western t, or institutional forms from •tLt We go to listen, to learn, to report our conclusions Jthe actual conditions and varying "Jlals from within. When the Ession has reported, the scheme JS, for that full and final consul- ;, Son between representatives of the Stures of India and Great Britain which is an essential condition to be fulfilled before reaching a Liskm upon which so much depends. "The task of the Commission calls for tha highest qualities of sympathy •ad imagination, as well as for endless pitiencc, strict impartiality, industry, u i courage. "I enter upon my part of this duty iatensely desiring to be of what serrjee I can to India and to Great BriUin, and, while I am deeply conjooM of my own shortcomings,, I am ping to do my best."