India (nation)
Found in 109 Collections and/or Records:
(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), 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), 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), [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), 03 Feb 1931
(Untitled), 04 Feb 1931
Cutting from the "Gloucester Citizen": report on the growing influence of WSC's views on India in the Conservative Indian Committee and in India itself.
(Untitled), 02 Feb 1931
Cutting from the "Gloucestershire Echo" (Cheltenham): article on WSC's speeches on the Trade Disputes Bill and on India, his split with the Conservative leadership and the large measure of support for him.
(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), 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), 17 Feb 1935
Letter from John D Collins, (38 Salisbury Gardens, Jesmond, Newcastle-upon-Tyne [Northumberland]) to WSC, on the Government of India Bill, on the intention of the canvassers and party workers in North Newcastle to resign from the local Conservative Association and start an Independent Conservative Association; asking if he or Randolph Churchill would be willing to speak at an "anti-White Paper" meeting under the auspices of the India Defence League.
(Untitled), 07 Jun 1935
(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.