Imagine you are Sir John Simon. You have to write a letter to the Secretary of State for India, Lord Birkenhead, about the reception given to the Simon Commission by the Indians.

The Indian Statutory Commission, commonly referred to as the Simon Commission, was a group of seven English, male British Members of Parliament under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon (later, 1st Viscount Simon). The commission arrived in British India in 1928 to study constitutional reform in Britain's largest and the most important possession.