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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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".

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.