'Sandy Robinson, a commissioner in the district of Dalpore, has orders to maintain the peace while natives are pouring in both directions over the India-Pakistan border. Lacking men and transport of his own, he manages to secure a shaky alliance with the local leaders, and reduces the amount of bloodshed in spite of skirmishes by a Communist faction. The leaders, as Mr. MacCormick depicts them, are unprincipled politicians over whom Robinson towers, like a reproving father, sorrowfully convinced that they are not ready for self-government.
'Having the balance tilted all one way need not, of course, vitiate the play's effectiveness. But apart from the scenes of political squabbling, with the right always on one side, the play diverges into domestic and romance byways inhabited by the commissioner's humdrum wife and his ivory-skulled son who courts an Indian girl with quotations from Kipling.'
Source:
'B.B.C. Television', The Times, 18 November 1957, p.3.
