Conservative Party
Found in 923 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 18 Apr 1933
Letter from Neston Diggle (Stopham House, Pulborough, Sussex) to WSC on the carrying of a resolution condemning Government policy on India at a meeting of his local association and the need for Conservative MPs who support the Government to "repent".
(Untitled), 26 Apr 1933
Letter from E P Newton (The Grange, Chard, Somerset) to Sir James Hawkey [vice chairman of the West Essex Unionist Association] on the tactics to be adopted by Conservatives who opposed the White Paper on India. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/193/53.
(Untitled), 30 Apr 1933
Press statement by WSC asserting that Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] rather than his opponents is responsible for the split of the Conservative Party over India, criticising the Government's claim that the Indian Civil Service supports its reforms, its taking credit for the improved law and order situation in India, and James Ramsay MacDonald's reluctance to allow Conservative and Liberal representatives on the Round Table Conference. Annotated typescript.
(Untitled), 02 May 1933
Letter from [WSC] to 2nd Lord Linlithgow regretting that he supports the White Paper on India, disagreeing with Linlithgow's view that most voters are not interested in India, expressing indifference about the effect his stance on the issue may have on his own political position and predicting that the Conservative Party will be split by the passage of the White Paper policy through Parliament. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 03 May 1933
Letter from [WSC] to 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on the growing opposition to the Government's Indian policy among Conservatives in the country and the help given to the cause by the Daily Mail and the Morning Post. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 04 Sep 1933
(Untitled), 22 Sep 1933
Letter from Sir Henry Page Croft (Knole, Bournemouth, [Hampshire]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/194/7-8 and making suggestions about their publication and noting that WSC does not wish to take the lead in opposing Government policy on India at the forthcoming Conservative Party conference.
(Untitled), [Sep] [1933]
Amendment on Indian policy by Sir Henry Page Croft to a proposed Conservative Party conference resolution expressing confidence in the National Government and implicitly criticising those Conservatives who oppose its Indian policy. Sent with CHAR 2/194/6.
(Untitled), 24 Sep 1933
Letter from [WSC] to [Lord Wolmer, later 3rd Lord Selborne] suggesting amendments to the proposed resolution [at the Conservative Party Conference] against the Government's Indian policy. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), [Apr] [1933]
Memorandum from Sir Alfred Knox and Patrick Donner of the India Defence Committee on the need for resolutions opposing the White Paper proposals on India to be moved at meetings of local Conservative associations.
(Untitled), 21 Apr 1933
Letter from Patrick Donner (Grand Hotel, Venice, [Italy]) to WSC reporting that he has acted on WSC's suggestions for the India campaign and promising that he will try to get Randolph S Churchill appointed as secretary of the India Empire Society.
(Untitled), 26 Apr 1933
Letter from E P Newton (The Grange, Chard, Somerset) to Sir James Hawkey suggesting that members of the Conservative Central Council who are opposed to the Government's Indian policy should meet to co-ordinate their efforts and hoping that the official resolution at the Conservative Women's Conference is defeated. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), [Oct] [1933]
Motion proposed by the North Battersea Constitutional Association [London] asserting that honest criticism by Conservative Party members of party policy should be welcomed rather than condemned and regretting the inclusion of a motion to the contrary on the agenda of the recent annual conference. Sent with CHAR 2/197/125.
(Untitled), 16 Oct 1933
Letter from [WSC] to Patrick Donner criticising [? CHAR 2/197/126] and arguing that [the India Defence League] should bring up its National Union resolution suitably amended. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 19 Oct 1933
Letter from Patrick Donner (22 Prince's Gardens, [London]) to WSC on the resolution to be moved by the North Battersea Constitutional Association [see CHAR 2/197/126] and his intention to write of the "rebirth of Conservatism" in an article on the major political events of the year.
(Untitled), [Oct] [1933]
Statement by Patrick Donner that he has arranged with Commander Arthur Marsden [Conservative MP for North Battersea, London] that he should raise the question of the suppression of free speech within the Conservative Party at the Council of the National Union (Metropolitan Area).
(Untitled), 20 Oct 1933
Report by Patrick Donner of the deletion from the agenda by the council of the National Union of the Metropolitan Area of a resolution upholding the right of Conservative Party members to criticise party policy [see CHAR 2/197/126] and of his steps to publicise "this scandal".
(Untitled), 21 Nov 1933
Letter from John S Boyd (Duncliffe, Dunoon, Argyll, [Scotland]) describing how criticism of the Government's Indian policy was suppressed at the Scottish Unionist Conference. Copy sent with CHAR 2/197/147.
(Untitled), 01 Mar 1933
(Untitled), 04 Mar 1933
Letter from Elizabeth Nash, secretary to the Director-General of the BBC [Sir John Reith, later Lord Reith] (Broadcasting House, London) to Violet Pearman stating that the BBC will broadcast three factual statements about the White Paper on India and a series of talks in the autumn giving different points of view, about which WSC will be contacted.
(Untitled), Mar 1934
Circular from the North Camberwell Unionist Association (530 Old Kent Road, [London]) to the shopkeepers of North Camberwell promoting the candidacy for the London County Council of Arthur Bateman and Grace Bateman.
(Untitled), 26 Oct 1934
Letter from WSC to Sir John Simon, Foreign Office, on the "misleading information" broadcast by British wireless stations "emanating from the Foreign Office", particularly account of resolution on Indian policy passed at Conservative conference in Bristol [carbon].
(Untitled), 01 Nov 1934
Letter from Sir John Simon, Foreign Office to WSC, on report on the British Official Wireless Service dealing with the debate on India at the Conservative Conference in Bristol. Also commenting generally on the service and WSC's claim that the contents were misleading or trivial, enclosing list of the items covered in the week beginning 1 Oct 1934.
(Untitled), 14 Oct 1922
Letter from Sir George Younger [later Lord Younger] (Leckie, Gargunnock, Stirlingshire, [Scotland]) to WSC regretting that he could not dine with him [to discuss the future of the Coalition] and reporting that the Conservative Party, which should not be confused with the small minority of "Diehards", "is likely to be in absolute revolt.".