Conservative Party
Found in 923 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 04 Feb 1931
Cutting from the "Gloucestershire Echo" (Cheltenham): same as CHAR 2/181/5.
(Untitled), 04 Feb 1931
Cutting from the "South Wales Daily Post" (Swansea): same as CHAR 2/181/8.
(Untitled), 20 Dec 1932
Letter from Frederick Guest (7 Aldford Street, Park Lane, [London]) to WSC advising him to rejoin the hierarchy of the Conservative Party and continue to develop his popularity, which Guest believes will lead to him becoming party leader.
(Untitled), Jan 1933
Printed memorandum by Frederick Guest suggesting means by which the work of the National Government can continue after the next General Election.
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1933
Statement by WSC to the "Daily Mail" confirming that he will attend the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham and will speak if he thinks he can do any good. Carbon copy at CHAR 2/191/16.
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1933
Carbon copy of CHAR 2/191/15.
(Untitled), 02 Jan 1933
Letter from 1st Lord Sydenham [earlier Sir George Clarke] (101 Onslow Square, [London]) to WSC deploring the statement in the House of Commons by [the Secretary of State for India, Sir Samuel Hoare, later Lord Templewood] about the fixing of a date for the introduction of the India Bill.
(Untitled), 07 Jan 1933
Letter from [WSC] to 1st Lord Sydenham, earlier Sir George Clarke] thanking him for sending a copy of the "extraordinary and discreditable" statement in the House of Commons by the Secretary of State for India ,[Sir Samuel Hoare, later Lord Templewood, about fixing a date for the introduction of the India Bill], deploring the fact that Conservative Party will now vote for any bad measure about India and predicting a battle on the issue in the coming year. Carbon typescript copy.
(Untitled), 24 Feb 1933
Letter from Sir Alfred Knox (13 South Street, [London]) to WSC asking to discuss tactics on the motions on India at the Conservative Council.
(Untitled), 25 Jul 1932
Letter from Sir Louis Stuart, secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC enclosing and summarising CHAR 2/189/100 and asking him on behalf of 1st Lord Sydenham [earlier Sir George Clarke] how best to meet this "attempt to dragoon the Conservative Party" over India.
(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), 09 Mar 1933
(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), [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 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.