As everyone understands now, no political significance whatever attaches to
the fact that Sir John Simon, Lord Lothian and Lord Winterton did not sign the report of the Joint Committee on India. All three of them support the findings of the main body of the committee. But as a matter of technical fact no one seems to have actually signed the report at all. The division between the main body of contents and the non-contents (of both wings) took place on October 12th on the motion that the report drafted by the chairman be agreed to. Lord Lothian could not take part in it as he was in America. Sir John Simon was heavily engaged at the Foreign Office, but it seems a pity, in view of his authorship of the Statutory Report, on which the Round Table Conferences, the White Paper and the Joint Com- mittee were all based, that some way could not have been found to get his vote recorded.
JANUS.
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