While His Majesty's Government in India met crises which demanded news-suppression (see p. 28). Prime Minister MacDonald seemed content to voice this policy: "Wait for the Simon report."
Some two years ago Parliament appointed that great Liberal barrister Sir John Simon to chairman a non-partisan commission (TIME. Jan. 30, 1928) which spent a year in India, amassing mountains of research. Last week the Simon Report was complete at last in two fat tomes: Vol. I History; Vol. II Recommendations.
Under the Official Secrets Act (see p. 28) the MacDonald Government threatened dire...
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