India (nation)
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Public and Political: General: Indian Affairs., 15 Jan 1937 - 19 Nov 1937
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/301
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Correspondents on India include: R A Butler [Under-Secretary of State for India] on the fall in British cotton exports to India and general balance of trade; John Morgan, Counsel to the Indian Chamber of Princes, on subjects including the probable need to amend the Government of India Act, and asking WSC to meet Jam Saheb, Maharaja of Nawanagar, Chancellor of the Indian Chamber of Princes (6); Sir Michael O'Dwyer [former Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab] on subjects including the...
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15 Jan 1937 - 19 Nov 1937
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Public and Political: General: Indian affairs: general public: correspondence., May 1930 - Jan 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/580
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Includes letters, mainly from members of the public, on affairs in India (including political issues, Gandhi, financial issues, government and the Round Table conference) and mainly in support of WSC's stance on India.Correspondents include: Archibald Fenner Brockway; the Maharajah of Alwar [India]; [1st Lord] Sydenham [earlier George Clarke]; Joseph Nall; [William] Comyns Beaumont, Editor of the Bystander; and Sir John Graham.Also includes copies of replies from WSC to the individuals...
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May 1930 - Jan 1931
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Public and Political: General: Indian affairs: General public: correspondence., Feb 1931 - Sep 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/581A-B
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Includes letters, mainly from members of the public, on affairs in India (including political issues, Gandhi, financial issues, government and the Round Table conference).Correspondents include: Sir Sidney Low; Sir Louis Stuart on the Indian national congress; Sir Charles Marston; Sir James Babington; [1st Lord] Inchcape [earlier James McKay]; Nathan Laski (enclosing letters from "native firms" in India) (2); Alexander Murison and Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Balfour.Also includes copies of...
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Feb 1931 - Sep 1931
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Public and Political: General: Indian affairs: General Public: correspondence., Jan 1931 - Oct 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/586A-C
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Correspondents include: James Fitzpatrick, Agent to the Governor General of India on the Round Table conference; [6th] Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour]; Audrey Maclean, Private Secretary to Lord Winterton (9) on the exchange of information between Winterton and WSC; Sir Reginald Craddock commenting on WSC's articles and speeches; Frederick Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] with a report on the Round Table conference; Edward Marsh; Sir Herbert Creedy, Secretary of State for War; Sir...
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Jan 1931 - Oct 1931
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Public and Political: General: Indian affairs: General Public: correspondence., Jan 1930 - Jun 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/582A-C
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Includes typescript reports, papers and newspaper cuttings on Indian affairs and subjects including: the Cawnpore riots; policies recommended by the Indian Empire society; the protection of minorities; the separation of Burma [later Myanmar] from India; Hindu psychology and religion; untouchables; the Round Table conference; Gandhi; conflict between Muslims and Hindus; and the Indian National Congress.Correspondents include: Waris Ameer Ali (2); "Rufus" [1st Lord Reading, earlier Sir Rufus...
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Jan 1930 - Jun 1931
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Public and Political: General: Indian affairs: General Public: correspondence., Jan 1931 - Mar 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/583A-B
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Correspondents include: A Abbassi; Lieutenant-Colonel Walter Merewether; Brigadier-General James Gaussen; James Cotton Minchin; Malcolm Dillon; Waris Ameer Ali; Robert Seton; Lord Irwin [earlier Edward Wood and later Lord Halifax], Viceroy of India; Winifred Scott; and Douglas Grant Duff Ainslie.Also includes: Indian Empire Society pamphlets and newspaper cuttings.Other subjects covered by the file include: reaction to WSC's speeches; Lord Irwin [earlier Edward Wood and later Lord Halifax]...
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Jan 1931 - Mar 1931
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Public and Political: General: Indian affairs: General Public: correspondence., Apr 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/584
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Correspondents include: [1st Lord] Burnham [earlier Harry Lawson] and Robert Seton.Subjects covered by the file include: the effect of India's boycott of British textiles; support for WSC; Gandhi; unrest in India including the Cawnpore riots; the numbers of British and Indians in civil administration in India; and the Round Table conference.Also includes newspaper cuttings.
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Apr 1931
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Public and Political: General: Indian affairs: General Public: correspondence., Feb 1931 - Jul 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/585A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir Reginald Craddock on subjects including the Lahore congress and dealings between Lord Irwin [earlier Edward Wood and later Lord Halifax], Viceroy of India, and Gandhi (3); [George] Lloyd [later 1st Lord Lloyd]; [1st] Lord Zetland [earlier Lawrence Dundas] regarding an account from Craddock (3) and Oliver Stanley, MP.Also includes: newspaper cuttings on various subjects including the inquiry into the Cawnpore [India] riots, exports to India, Gandhi, the government...
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Feb 1931 - Jul 1931
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Public and Political: General: Indian affairs: Newspapers, press cuttings and photographs., 1931
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/587
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Includes cuttings from various newspapers on subjects including: statements and speeches by Gandhi, his meetings with Lord Irwin [earlier Edward Wood and later Lord Halifax], Viceroy of India, the Round Table conference, the Cawnpore [India] riots and unrest in India; Dominion status for India; the Bengal Muslim conference, the powers of the Governor-General of India and two issues of "Capital", the Indian Financial Review.
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1931
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Public and Political: General: Indian Empire Committee., Dec 1931 - Oct 1936
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/593
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Correspondents include: James Lees-Milne [Private Secretary to 1st Lord Lloyd] on the future of Bangalore [India] and Sir Louis Stuart, Secretary of the Indian Empire Society on subjects including the working classes' opinion on India, information which WSC might use in the House of Commons and on a resolution proposed by [Mahomed Ali] Jinnah.Also includes: information about voting in the Houses of Parliament on Indian issues; copies of correspondence; papers issued by the Indian Defence...
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Dec 1931 - Oct 1936
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Public and Political: General: letters of congratulation on WSC's appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty., Sep 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/381
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Correspondents include: M A Apostolides, Minister of Finance for Greece; Major Ian Hay Beith [real-name John Hay Beith], Director of Public Relations at the War Office; Dr Edward Benes [former President of the Czechoslovak Republic, later Czech Republic and Slovakia]; G D Birla, also on [Mahatma] Gandhi; L de Diesbach, French Deputy; Roger Frewen; Nina, Duchess of Hamilton [and Brandon, earlier Nina Benita]; Rachel Macnamara, widow of Thomas Macnamara, former Financial Secretary to the...
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Sep 1939
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Public and Political: General: miscellaneous correspondence., Jan 1943 - Jan 1944
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/461
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Correspondents include: [Charles] Wood [former literary assistant of WSC] on his employment prospects; Maharaja of Nepal [?Shamsher Jang] and [Sir] Sadiq Mohammed, Nawab of Bahawalpur [India, later Pakistan] on WSC's health; [Francis] Harrison, [Assistant Principal] India Office, on replying to the Nawab of Bahawalpur; Vincent Massey, High Commissioner for Canada [in United Kingdom], on WSC autographing photographs for him; Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] on a letter by him in the New York...
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Jan 1943 - Jan 1944
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, A-B, many congratulating WSC on becoming Prime Minister and praising his leadership and speeches. [please note that almost the whole file dates from 1940]., Jun 1903 - Feb 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/392A-B
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Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams (4) including (2) on his attending a meeting addressed by WSC; [John] Sandeman Allen on [David Lloyd George]; [1st] Lord Alness [earlier Robert Munro]; Julian Amery [Attache HM Legation, Belgrade] on articles by WSC for publication in Yugoslavia [later Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia] (4); Leo Amery [Secretary of State for India and Burma, later Myanmar] sending on a 1903 letter from WSC to him on...
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Jun 1903 - Feb 1941
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, E-G. [please note that almost all material dates from 1941]., Jan 1941 - Jan 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/418
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Correspondents include: Charles Eade [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch on Randolph Churchill; Sybil, Lady Eden, on obtaining WSC's autograph (2); [Anthony] Eden [later 1st Lord Avon] sending an item from Sir [Ronald] Campbell [British Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington, United States] to amuse WSC; Daisy Fellowes [earlier Daisy, Princesse de Broglie] on lunch invitations (3); [2nd] Lord Fisher of Kilverstone sending asparagus; Alastair Forbes on WSC signing his copy of "Into Battle"; David...
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Jan 1941 - Jan 1943
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, H-K. [please note the majority of the file dates from 1943]., Nov [1941] - Dec 1943
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/466
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Correspondents include: Sir Percy Harris on WSC's safe return from abroad; Cardinal [Arthur] Hinsley [Archbishop of Westminster], Leslie Hore-Belisha, Sir Miles Lampson [later 1st Lord Killearn, British Ambassador to Egypt], and Maharaja Maharao of Kutch on WSC's health; Major-General [Sir] Percy Hobart on his recent honour [knighthood]; Sir Ian Hamilton (3) on subjects including a memoir of his wife, forwarding best wishes, and a cow called "Winnie"; Walter Harrap, [Chairman] of George G...
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Nov [1941] - Dec 1943
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office: Correspondence L - Q., 28 Jul 1939 - 20 May 1940
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/366
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Correspondents, mainly congratulating WSC on his appointment as First Lord of the Admiralty, and on his broadcasts (1 October ["The first month of war"] and 12 November ["Ten weeks of war"]) include: George Lambton; Sir Walter Layton on reactions to WSC's description of the Germans as Huns; Frederick Leathers; "Charley" [7th Lord Londonderry, earlier Lord Castlereagh] on subjects including his differences with [Neville Chamberlain], Prime Minister, on foreign policy, the results of WSC's...
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28 Jul 1939 - 20 May 1940
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Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, T-Z., Jan 1942 - Dec 1942
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 2/447
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Correspondents include: Mavis Tate and Sir Reginald Wingate supporting WSC's leadership; Cecil Thomas, editor of the Daily Mirror, on his brother, [Sir] Shenton Thomas [Governor of Straits Settlements (later Singapore and part of Malaysia) and High Commissioner for the Malay States, later part of Malaysia] and Singapore; "Bendor", [2nd] Duke of Westminster, (4) on subjects including the landings in North West Africa, meeting WSC, and reminisces; Sir Courtauld Thomson on gifts of a desk once...
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Jan 1942 - Dec 1942
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Public and Political: General: Political: arrangements for the Conservative Party Conference at Blackpool [Lancashire], October 1946 (mainly letters of congratulation from the general public following WSC's speech)., May 1946 - Nov 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/9
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Other correspondents include: Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe], Chairman of the Conservative Party [until July 1946] (2); James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip]; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis], Chairman, Conservative and Unionist Central Office [from July 1946]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], and Honorary Secretary [Edmund]...
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May 1946 - Nov 1946
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-B., Nov 1945 - Dec 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/52A-B
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Correspondents include: Prime Minister Clement Attlee (3); Paul Beards [Assistant Private Secretary to Attlee]; Admiral of the Fleet 1st Lord Chatfield (2), General Admiral Conrad Albrecht (2), and Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to Attlee] (3) on pensions for German war veterans; James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip] (4); 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Julian Amery on completing J L Garvin's life of Joseph Chamberlain; Bhimrao Ambedkar (2) (see CHUR 2/52A/41);...
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Nov 1945 - Dec 1947
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Public and Political: General: Political; Correspondence A-B., Dec 1949 - Nov 1950
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/94
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Correspondents include: Vyvyan Adams; 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg]; Waris Ameer Ali on Indo-Pakistani affairs; Leo Amery (4); Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley] (3) including 2 on his personal plans; James Thomas [later 1st Lord Cilcennin], Vice-Chairman of Conservative and Unionist Party, on Lady Megan Lloyd George; Nigel Colman, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations; James Harden on being re-elected...
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Dec 1949 - Nov 1950
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Public and Political: General: Political: Correspondence A-C (almost all material dates from 1946)., Jun 1945 - Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/5A-B
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Correspondents include: Sir Douglas Thomson on WSC visiting Aberdeen [Scotland] (2); "Scribe", 1st Lord Altrincham [earlier Sir Edward Grigg] (2); Waris Ameer Ali on the activities of the Congress Party in India; Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley] on scientists at Harwell [Berkshire]; Ralph Assheton [later 1st Lord Clitheroe], Chairman of the Conservative Party (8); 1st Lord Davidson; James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip] (7); Pierson Dixon [Principal Private Secretary to the Foreign...
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Jun 1945 - Dec 1946
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on Hyderabad [India]., Apr 1948 - Dec 1948
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/45
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Correspondents include: representatives of the government of the Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar, including the Agent-General in the United Kingdom Mir Nawaz Jung, Ministry of External Affairs officials Zahir Ahmed and Muneeruddin Khan, and the Nizam of Hyderabad Asaf Jah. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], and Elizabeth Gilliatt.Subjects covered by the file: India's absorption...
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Apr 1948 - Dec 1948
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on India., Mar 1946 - Dec 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/42A-B
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Simon [of Stackpole Elidor] (3); Prime Minister Clement Attlee (2); Patrick Donner; Bhimrao Ambedkar of the All-India Scheduled Castes Federation (9); Sir Walter Monckton (3); Sir Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal (5); 1st Lord Wavell [Viceroy and Governor-General of India] (2); R A Butler (13); Sir Edward Souter; 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Edward Turnour]; Mahomed Ali Jinnah (3); Colonel Oliver Stanley; Charles Eade [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch; Enoch...
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Mar 1946 - Dec 1946
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on India., 1942 - Dec 1947
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/43A-B
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Correspondents include: 1st Lord Simon [of Stackpole Elidor]; Prime Minister Clement Attlee (7); Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to Attlee] (4); Francis Turnbull [Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for India] (2); James Stuart [Chief Opposition Whip]; Enoch Powell; 1st Lord Cherwell [earlier F A Lindemann]; Mahomed Ali Jinnah (4); R A Butler; Harold MacMillan [later 1st Lord Stockton] (2); General 1st Lord Ismay [Chief of Staff of Lord Mountbatten of Burma, last...
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1942 - Dec 1947
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Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on India., Sep 1947 - May 1949
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 2/44
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Correspondents include: Henry Spalding; Leo Amery (2); Prime Minister Clement Attlee; 1st Lord Swinton [earlier Philip Lloyd Greame and Philip Cunliffe Lister] (2); Waris Ameer Ali (2); Douglas Marshall; Sir Waldron Smithers. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Elizabeth Gilliatt and Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow].Subjects covered by the file include: India's position in the British Commonwealth; the Indian Constitution and the position of the King; the...
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Sep 1947 - May 1949
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