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India House
On Tuesday the King, accompanied by the Queen, opened India House in Aldwych. His Majesty said that he rejoiced in the knowledge that India had " steadily advanced to an assured place among the great peoples of the earth." Of that advance India House was to some degree a symbol. He regarded it as a happy augury that this House should be opened when one period of Indian political life was ending and another beginning. The High Commissioner for India \VIII have at his disposal in India House all the means for disseminating knowledge about India and inspiring public, interest. This new headquarters is very different from the old East India House in leadenhall Street whence the East India Company directed the administration of India. Sir Herbert Baker, the architect, has contrived a highly ingenious combination of the characteristics of a simple English building with much that is dist in etive of India—the sculptured elephants and lions outside, and inside the stones and woods brought from India.
The lighting of the great central hall is extremely effective.
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