Conservative Party
Found in 111 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 23 Sep 1932
Letter from Sir Alfred Knox (Binfield House, Binfield, Berkshire) to WSC on the resolutions on India to be moved at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool [Lancashire].
(Untitled), 15 Mar 1933
Letter from [WSC] to Ellen Stutely [chairman of the women's section of the South Chingford Conservative and Unionist Association] advising that she should make her seconding of the Conservative conference resolution approving government policy conditional on the addition of a sentence hoping that imperial authority in the central government of India will not be abdicated. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 15 Mar 1933
Letter from John Gretton [later 1st Lord Gretton] (35 Belgrave Square, [London]) to WSC on the tactics they should adopt in moving their amendment to the motion setting up the Joint Select Committee on India.
(Untitled), 15 Mar 1933
Letter from [WSC] to 7th Lord Londonderry reporting that Admiral Sir Reginald Custance agrees with him on the tactical methods of air defence, praising Sir Philip Sassoon's speech [on the air estimates] and attacking Londonderry's speech on India as damaging to the Conservative Party. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 18 Feb 1933
Lette from Lord Carson [earlier Sir Edward Carson] (5 Eaton Place, [London]) to WSC praising the passages on India and Ireland in WSC's speech [at the 25th anniversary meeting of the Anti-Socialist and Anti-Communist Union] and asserting that "the Conservative party are duped over India".
(Untitled), 24 Mar 1933
Letter from Mrs E M Goult, honorary secretary of the Rayleigh Independent Conservative Association (Central Chambers, High Street, Rayleigh, Essex) to WSC conveying resolutions of her committee that official Conservative Party should no longer be supported in view of the Indian policy of the National Government and that Sir Henry Page Croft and his India Defence Group should form an Independent Conservative Party to fight the next election.
(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), 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), 31 Dec 1924
(Untitled), 25 Jan 1935
(Untitled), 30 Jan 1935
Letter from "O L L" [Oliver Locker-Lampson] (St Stephen's House, Westminster [London]) to WSC, saying that he "would have sent twenty people today but for the embargo the other end" [? in support of Randolph Churchill's campaign as an anti-India Bill Conservative candidate at the Wavertree, Liverpool by-election, which was against the official party line] and adding that he is, however, sending 3 from London and 2 from Accrington [Lancashire].
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1935
(Untitled), 07 Jun 1935
Letter from C S Blackmore, ("The Bunglalow", S. Lawrence [London]) to WSC, on opposition to the Government of India Bill; asking if he should vote Labour instead of Conservative at the next General Election.