Conservative Party
Found in 109 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 03 Jul 1935
Memorandum by John Gretton on the future policy of the India Defence League, proposing that it be continued, as a core of the Conservative Party, particularly to support MPs who had steadily supported the opposition to the India Bill.
(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), 04 Dec 1920
Letter from WSC (War Office) to [David Lloyd George] arguing that the Government's anti-Turkish and pro-Bolshevik policy is harming British interests in India and the Middle East, is ruinously expensive, and is alienating the Liberals' Conservative coalition partners. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.