India (nation)
Found in 109 Collections and/or Records:
(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 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), 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), 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), 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), 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), 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), 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), 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].