INDIAN COMMISSION

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 110, 7 February 1928, Page 9

INDIAN COMMISSION

STATEMENT BY SIR JOHN

SIMON

EFFORTS TO ALLAY SUSPICIONS

Rugby, February 4. Sir John Simon and the O'.her members of the Indian Statutory Commission arrived at Bombay yesterday. Sir John issued a statement to the Press in the following terms:—“My colleagues and I set foot in India fully impressed with the responsibility of our work, and the resolve to apply all our energy and goodwill to its discharge. Constitutional progress in British India essentially depends on the friendly and sincere co-operation of Indian and British representatives, but it is manifest that there exists at the moment, m some quarters, a widespread misunderstanding as to what, the Commission is setting out to do, and uncertainty respecting the methods it proposes to employ. We shall make it our business - without delav to remove misapprehensions, and after reaching Delhi and becoming more acquainted •with the actual situation we intend to make a statement of the proposed procedure winch should leave no ground for Hie suspicions which have unfortunately arisen.. We mean to take the fullest opportunity open to us for consultation with Indian representatives who are willing to meet ns, both during our preliminary visit and when we return for our longer visit in October.”—British Official Wireless.