Note by [Lieutenant-Colonel F W P Macdonald], India Army (retired) (Uriage-les-Bains, Isers, France) criticising the India Office's proposals for the future of the Indian Civil Service and Indian Military Service Family Pension Funds. Copy sent with CHAR 2/197/91.

Letter from [Lieutenant-Colonel F W P Macdonald, India Army (retired)] (East India United Service Club, 16 St James's Square, London) to the Chief Organiser of the India Defence League [Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne] urging the League to embark on an aggressive publicity campaign against the Government's Indian policy, in particular its proposals for the future of the Indian Military Service Family Pension Fund. Copy sent with CHAR 2/197/91.

Letter from [Lieutenant-Colonel F W P Macdonald, India Army (retired)] (70 Chausee de Charleroi, Brussels, [Belgium]) to the Chief Organiser of the India Defence League [Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne] arguing that the League should take much more vigorous action in contradicting Government claims that the White Paper on India is supported by most officials there and in publicising the issue of the Indian Military Service Family Pension Fund. Copy sent with CHAR 2/197/91.

Letter from Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne, chief organiser of the India Defence League (48 Broadway, Westminster, [London]) to WSC (11 Morpeth Mansions) on the question of support from the India Defence League for the proposed candidature for East Fulham [London] of Sir Martin Archer-Shee, who is opposed to the Government's White Paper on India.

Letter from Captain David Fleming-Madge (14/1 Benaipukur Road, Calcutta, India) to WSC asking him to become president of his "Colonial Indian Association".

Letter from [Violet Pearman] to the chief organiser of the India Defence League [Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne] enclosing a letter and enclosure received by WSC from A E Duveck of Calcutta [India], which WSC thinks is worthy of Usborne's notice. Carbon typescript copy.

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.

Letter from [WSC] to John Reder [MP for the Macclesfield Division of Cheshire] approving the fact that the Under-Secretary of State for India [R A Butler] is to speak [in support of the setting up of the Joint Select Committee on India] because it opens the door to speeches from opponents. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Field Marshal Sir William Birdwood [later 1st Lord Birdwood] (Peterhouse, Cambridge) to WSC recalling the discussions he had on India with William Wedgwood Benn [later 1st Lord Stansgate] and Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood], explaining his attitude to the Simon Report on Indian constitutional reform and to the Government's White Paper on India, and regretting that the WSC is not on the Joint Select Committee.

Invitation from 2nd Lord Ampthill, 1st Lord Beatty [earlier Sir David Beatty], 1st Lord Desborough [earlier William Grenfell], 1st Lord Fitz Alan [earlier Lord Edmund Fitzalan-Howard], 1st Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd], Lord Midleton and 1st Lord Sumner [earlier John Sumner] to join a group of peers who are to consult together on the Government's proposals for Indian constitutional reform.

Letter from [WSC] to Field-Marshall Sir William Birdwood [later 1st Lord Birdwood] thanking him for his letter [giving his views on India] and stating that they do not differ much from his. Carbon typescript copy.

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 "Hopie" [2nd Lord Linlithgow] (29 Chesham Place, [London]) to WSC arguing that he has over-estimated the importance of the Indian issue to most voters and that the opposition to the lowering of British import duties which will follow the Government's conclusion of a series of trade agreements will arouse far more feeling and will be a much more important field in which WSC can take the lead.

Letter from Sir Martin Archer-Shee (Carlton Club) to WSC enclosing a letter criticising Government policy in India from Field-Marshall Sir Philip Chetwode [later 1st Lord Chetwode] [not present], which he thinks is useful for the Government's opponents because Chetwode is liberal-minded.

Letter from [WSC] to the Editor of the Morning Post [H A Gwynne] answering the questions about his opposition to the Government's White Paper on India put by 6th Lord Winterton and praising Gwynne's stance on India. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from 1st Lord Beatty [earlier Sir David Beatty] (17 Grosvenor Square, [London]) to WSC on his acceptance of the invitation from Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd] to join a group of peers who will meet to consider the Government's Indian policy.

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 [Violet Pearman] to the Editor of the Morning Post [H A Gwynne] enclosing a circular on Ashridge, the Bonar Law College at Berkhamsted [Hertfordshire] [not present], and giving WSC's opinion that persons attending the college should have the chance to hear both sides [? of the Indian debate]. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from "Hopie" [2nd Lord Linlithgow] (29 Chesham Place, [London]) to WSC stating that the Indian Agricultural Service has been nearly completely Indianised and that no one has suggested reversing this policy, agreeing with Sir Hubert Carr's view that the White Paper on India is the logical outcome of the Montford reforms of 1919 and suggesting that WSC and his supporters want to recreate the India of 1900.

Letter from [Violet Pearman] to Captain H Bosanquet reporting that WSC is sending his letter to Patrick Donner, secretary of the India Defence Committee which is considering holding a meeting in the Albert Hall. Carbon typescript copy.

Telegram from 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] (Basel, [Switzerland]) to WSC urging him to consult with 4th Lord Salisbury about running an opposition candidate if the candidate for Knebworth [Hertfordshire] is not "one hundred per cent sound on India", and offering to subscribe towards the election expenses.

Letter from [WSC] to [2nd Lord Linlithgow] arguing that the period of vague liberal aspirations is over and that Britain is facing a struggle for survival with other European industrialised countries and should therefore not give India up. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from James Lees-Milne, private secretary to 1st Lord Lloyd [earlier Sir George Lloyd] to [Violet Pearman] enclosing a letter from 2nd Lord Melchett [earlier Henry Mond] [not present] and asking how WSC thinks Lloyd should respond to such cases of hesitancy [in accepting the invitation to join a group of peers who will consider the Government's policy on India].

Resolutions to be moved at the Conservative Women's Conference opposing the relinquishment by Britain of control of the central government, the judicial system and the police in India and the setting up of responsible government for all India on western democratic lines.