Time is on the side of this Commission. The efforts
to boycott it grow weaker, having little or nothing to feed upon. The Nehru Report, practically an ultimatum to the Government of India, has failed in its effect, but it has split the Congress Party. Among both Moslems and Hindus there are distinguished leaders who will have nothing to do with it. The Pundit Nehru is almost alone in condemning the postponement of the election. The Viceroy has now left Simla on his way home. At Bombay he is to confer with the representatives of the Native Princes upon the chief points raised by the Report of the Harcourt Butler Committee. He will also receive a deputation from the Bombay industrialists. When he arrives here, his leave will be devoted to dis- cussions with the new Secretary of State for India and the Simon Commission. His last public act at Simla was to deliver one of his admirable, high-minded speeches which have so deeply impressed all who can appreciate them, and that includes a very large number of Indians. The simplicity of his firm utterances and the magnanimous charity with which he addresses opponents are proofs of his character and instruments of real power in his Office.
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