Extract from the Times Trade and Engineering Supplement: report of a speech by Walchand Hirachand, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce, calling for commercial discrimination against non-Indians. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/193/100.

Letter from Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] (Privy Council Office) to 1st Lord Greenway [earlier Sir Charles Greenway] asserting that the appointment of a Socialist or Congress-supporting Governor-General would have to be accompanied by a number of even more important difficulties and asserting that the present Government's reforms, by conciliating moderate Indian opinion, increase the chances of this situation being avoided. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/193/102.

Letter from 1st Lord Greenway [earlier Sir Charles Greenway] (Stanbridge Earls, Romsey, Hampshire) to Stanley Baldwin [later Lord Baldwin] urging the Government to withdraw the federal scheme for India and deriding Sir Hubert Carr's claim that in supporting the Government's policy he is representing the British community in India. Typescript copy.

Letter from "Hopie" [2nd Lord Linlithgow] (29 Chesham Place, [London]) to WSC responding to WSC's arguments about India by arguing that progress is prevalent over reaction in the modern world and countering WSC's assertion that there will be an economic struggle for existence between nations by asserting that with falling birth-rates and enhanced production distribution will be the most important economic factor and this will depend on international goodwill rather than enmity.

Letter from J Slee, news editor of British Paramount News (School Road, London) to WSC asking him to record a talk on India.

Letter from Geoffrey Roberts, vice-chairman of the Nelson and Colne Conservative and Unionist Association (Cross Street, Nelson, Lancashire) to WSC conveying a resolution of his association approving Linton Thorp's support for Sir Henry Page Croft's motion on India, with an addition regretting the refusal by Page Croft, WSC and 1st Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd] to join the Joint Select Committee on India.

Letter from [WSC] to Geoffrey Roberts [vice-chairman of the Nelson and Colne Conservative and Unionist Association] approving his association's resolution on India [see CHAR 2/193/116] and explaining that he did not join the Joint Select Committee on India because he believed it was packed in favour of supporters of the White Paper. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Sir James Hawkey, vice-chairman of the West Essex Unionist Association (26 Broomhill Road, Woodford Green, Essex) to WSC enclosing a letter from Yeovil [Somerset] showing the methods adopted by their opponents in the constituencies [not present], stressing the need for a friendly press and deploring the attitude of the Sunday Express.

Letter from James Johnston, retired member of the Indian Civil Service (Villa de Mon Reve, 2 Upper Clarendon Road, Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands) to WSC enclosing CHAR 2/193/130-131 and affirming his support for WSC's views on India.

Extract from a book [by James Johnston, retired member of the Indian Civil Service] criticising the apparent intention to rely on the RAF rather than the Army to maintain internal order in India. Sent with CHAR 2/193/128-129.

Letter from J B Harrop (20 Regent Road, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands) to WSC urging him to broadcast from a foreign station about India.

Cutting from the Morning Post: letter to the editor from A H T Clarke (The Rectory, Devizes, [Wiltshire]) criticising the defence by J L Garvin in the Observer of the White Paper on India.

Letter from Phujauddin Khan (Wassiamul Mansion, Gumballa Hill, Bombay, [India]) to WSC describing what he sees as the differences between WSC's views on India and those of the Government, complaining about the British failure to protect the Muslims from oppression by the Hindus, especially in Bengal [parts of Bangladesh and India], and urging Britain to enlist the support of the Muslims against threatened uprisings.

Article by Moulvi Mahmood-ul Hasan Kermani, a lawyer of Bara Banki, [India] criticising the White Paper on India and including a brief political history of the country and a consideration of the suitability of establishing in it a system of western democracy. Sent with CHAR 2/193/143.

Resolution [of the Burton-on-Trent Conservative Association, Staffordshire] opposing the setting up of central federal government in India and the handing over of law and order to Indian legislatures before provincial self-government has been tested. Sent with CHAR 2/193/160.

Letter from Edward Russell (The Morning Post, 15 Tudor Street, London) to WSC quoting two reports of a speech in December 1931 by 1st Lord Willingdon [earlier Freeman Freeman-Thomas], the Viceroy of India, favouring the granting of self-government to Indians but attacking the seditious agitation by Congress, and questioning why supporters of the White Paper have only now denied that Willingdon said this.

Letter from Frederick Guest (12 Downing Street) to WSC enclosing a letter from Lord Chelmsford [earlier Frederic Thesiger] on reform of the government of India [see CHAR 2/105/83-93].

Letter from Lord Chelmsford [earlier Frederic Thesiger] (Viceroy's Camp, India) to [Frederick Guest] giving details of the proposals of his Executive Council for the reform of the government of India. Typescript copy. Sent with CHAR 2/105/82.

Letter from the India Office explaining, in response to a point made in the House of Commons by Edmund Denniss [later Sir Edmund Bartley-Denniss], how provisions in the Government of India Bill could lead to fiscal autonomy for India (15 Dec). Annotated by WSC: "does this mean that India may impose a protective tariff agst Lancashire cotton goods?".

Newspaper cuttings on the third reading of the Government of India Bill.

Letter from the India Office to Edward Marsh enclosing a copy of the Joint Select Committee's report on the Government of India Bill [see CHAR 2/106/161]. Annotated by Marsh that the answer to WSC's question whether India could impose a protective tariff on Lancashire cotton goods appears to be yes.

"Report from the Joint Select Committee on the Government of India Bill." Sent with CHAR 2/106/160.

Letter from WSC to Edwin Montagu [Secretary of State for India] protesting about the ability of India to impose a protective tariff against British goods under the Government of India Bill. Typescript copy.

Letter from Admiral Sir Roger Keyes [later 1st Lord Keyes] (39 Lowndes Street, [London]) to WSC enclosing a proof chapter [from his naval memoirs] [not present], expressing the wish to help WSC in the "Indian battle" and reporting the view of "an old general" that India has already been lost.