India (nation)
Found in 7962 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 10 Jan 1931
Letter from Sir [John] Mark Hunter, Secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/180A/14 and discussing the arrangements for the forthcoming meeting in Manchester.
(Untitled), 11 Dec 1930
Resolution on the danger to the British Empire in India proposed at the meeting of the Indian Empire Society at the Cannon Street Hotel, [London]. [Sent with CHAR 2/180A/11-13].
(Untitled), 12 Jan 1931
Letter from Sir [John] Mark Hunter, Secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC enclosing a draft from [J E Lawrence], news editor of the Daily Mail [about the forthcoming Society meeting in Manchester, not present] and asking WSC to put it into its final form.
(Untitled), 12 Jan 1931
Letter from [WSC] to Esmond Harmsworth [later 2nd Lord Rothermere] on the arrangements for the Indian Empire Society meeting in Manchester at which both are speaking and the fact that "Max" [1st Lord Beaverbrook, earlier Sir Max Aitken] is "getting on the move about India too." [Carbon typescript copy].
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1931
Cutting from the Morning Post: letter to the editor from the Nawab of Dera Ismail Khan urging the provision of safeguards for minorities in the forthcoming declaration by the Prime Minister [Ramsay Macdonald] of government policy on India. Sent with CHAR 2/180A/20.
(Untitled), 18 Jan 1931
Letter from Sir [John] Mark Hunter, Secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) enclosing and commenting on CHAR 2/180A/24-26 and referring to speeches on India by 1st Lord Morley [of Blackburn, former Secretary of State for India].
(Untitled), 16 Jan 1931
Minutes of a meeting of the local committee and Sir [John] Mark Hunter [Secretary] of the Indian Empire Society on WSC's proposed meeting in Manchester.
(Untitled), 12 Feb 1931
Letter from Sir Reginald Craddock (Whitehall Court, [London]) to [WSC] asserting that WSC should see A K Fazl ul Haq [see CHAR 2/180A/32] and that it would be disgraceful if the British forcibly upheld a Brahmin oligarchy against the wishes of the Muslims.
(Untitled), 22 Jan 1931
Letter from [WSC] to W H Flanagan [? William Flanagan, MP for Clayton Division, Manchester] inviting him to come and talk to him when he visits Manchester. [Carbon typescript copy].
(Untitled), 21 Jan 1931
Letter from A K Fazl ul Haq, one of the Bengal [India, later also part of Bangladesh] delegates to the Indian Round Table Conference (8 Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair, London) to [WSC] asking to meet him and 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] to discuss Indian affairs.
(Untitled), 24 Jan 1931
Letter from J S Rouse (103 Gower Street, [London]) to [WSC] on his efforts to raise money for the Indian Empire Society's campaign to rouse and organise public opinion and the tendency of manufacturers trading with India to concentrate on short-term commercial matters rather than the broader issue of the Empire.
(Untitled), 28 Jan 1931
Letter from [WSC] to A J Bailey [Chairman of the Constitutional Club, Manchester] accepting the invitation to dine with the Club. [Carbon typescript copy].
(Untitled), 05 Feb 1931
Letter from [WSC] to Sir [John] Mark Hunter [Secretary of the Indian Empire Society] reporting that 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] advises that the meeting on India at the Albert Hall [London] should not be delayed until April and enclosing a copy of a letter he is sending to John Whitley, Chairman of the BBC, asking for an opportunity to broadcast on India [not present]. [Carbon typescript copy].
(Untitled), 02 Feb 1931
Letter from Sir [John] Mark Hunter, Secretary of the Indian Empire Society (28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC reporting that he has sent a telegram to 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] on the success of the Society's meeting in Manchester and that he will bring the proposal for a meeting in the Albert Hall [London] before members of his committee, who are pleased with the Manchester meeting. Wishes WSC's speech there had been reported verbatim and broadcast.
(Untitled), 31 Jan 1931
(Untitled), 13 Dec 1930
Telegram from 1st Lord Rothermere [owner of the Daily Mail, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Cap Martin, [France]) to WSC congratulating him on his speech on India [at the Cannon Street Hotel, London], urging him to make more of the same sort and promising to publicise them.
(Untitled), 28 Jan 1931
Telegram from 1st Lord Rothermere [owner of the Daily Mail, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Monte Carlo [Monaco]) to WSC congratulating him on his speech [on India] and promising unlimited support.
(Untitled), 29 Jan 1931
Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [owner of the Daily Mail, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Riviera Palace Hotel, Monte Carlo [Monaco]) to WSC urging him to continue with his campaign on India and promising to give him as much publicity as he wants.
(Untitled), 03 Feb 1931
(Untitled), 03 Feb 1931
(Untitled), 03 Feb 1931
Letter from 1st Lord Rothermere [owner of the Daily Mail, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Royal Hotel, San Remo, [Italy]) to WSC advising that the meeting [on India] in the Albert Hall [London] should be held in early March, that WSC's message about India should be constantly repeated, and that Britain, whose foreign trade is disappearing, will face "bankruptcy and revolution" if India is not held.
(Untitled), 08 Feb 1931
Telegram from [1st Lord Rothermere, earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (San Remo, [Italy]) to WSC [on his Indian campaign]: "you have a superb chance. Be untiring and unfaltering. Chuck holidays and live laborous [sic] days.".
(Untitled), 10 Feb 1931
Telegram from [WSC] to 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Royal Hotel, San Remo [Italy]) stating that he never has holidays, that [the Indian campaign] is going well, that "B" [? Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council] "had bad time with two hundred Conservative members is now trying to get under cover" and that Epping [Essex] is in excellent form. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 09 Feb 1931
Letter from Waris Amir Ali (The Indian Empire Society, 28 Alfred Place, [London]) to WSC passing on a request to him to speak on India in Bedford, congratulating him on the effect of his speeches in Manchester and Toxteth [Liverpool], and stressing that the Muslims and other minorities in India will not accept the scheme of federation under Brahmin domination foreshadowed by the Round Table Conference.
(Untitled), 12 Feb 1931
Extract from the minutes of the executive committee of the Indian Empire Society thanking WSC for his speech in Manchester.