Letter from WSC to Major Sir Ralph Glyn on parliamentary discussions about India.

Letter from WSC to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on issues such as training of territorial troops by deployment to India; the need for more Air Squadrons and the exaggerated emphasis placed on Air Raid Precautions. [typed copy, with manuscript annotations by WSC].

Letter from WSC to Leo Amery [Secretary of State for India and Burma, later Myanmar] asking him to abandon such ambitious plans for an independent India, and concentrate on the defence of Britain. [Carbon].

Printed note by WSC for the War Cabinet repeating a telegram from the Chief Secretary to Government of United Provices [?Francis Mudie] to Secretary of State for India [2nd Lord Zetland, earlier Lord Ronaldshay] on a riot at Nawabganj, India.

Letter from John Gretton [later 1st Lord Gretton] (35 Belgrave Square, [London]) to WSC on the intention of committee of the India Defence League to ask for the resignation as chief organiser of Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne because of his unsatisfactory performance and the good qualifications of Hugh Orr-Ewing to be his replacement.

Letter from [WSC] to John Gretton [later 1st Lord Gretton] agreeing with the decision [to ask Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne to resign as chief organiser of the India Defence League]. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne, chief organiser of the India Defence League (48 Broadway, Westminster, [London]) to WSC (11 Morpeth Mansions) asking him to write a press article on the Indian situation in order to publicise the veiwpoint of the League.

Letter from [WSC] to Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne [chief organiser of the India Defence League] promising to talk to his friends in the press about getting greater publicity for the India Defence League before the Birmingham conference. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to Patrick Donner suggesting that a delegation from the Indian Empire Society or the India Defence League should interview all the candidates in the forthcoming by-elections because at least half of them would agree with the position of the League. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Patrick Donner (22 Prince's Gardens, [London]) to WSC (Chartwell) reporting that he will put WSC's suggestion [that a delegation from the Indian Empire Society or the India Defence League should interview all the candidates in the forthcoming by-elections] before the organisation sub-committee and discussing a motion to be moved by the North Battersea Constitutional Association [London] [see CHAR 2/197/126].

Letter from [WSC] to Patrick Donner criticising [? CHAR 2/197/126] and arguing that [the India Defence League] should bring up its National Union resolution suitably amended. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from Patrick Donner (22 Prince's Gardens, [London]) to WSC on the resolution to be moved by the North Battersea Constitutional Association [see CHAR 2/197/126] and his intention to write of the "rebirth of Conservatism" in an article on the major political events of the year.

Statement by Patrick Donner that he has arranged with Commander Arthur Marsden [Conservative MP for North Battersea, London] that he should raise the question of the suppression of free speech within the Conservative Party at the Council of the National Union (Metropolitan Area).

Report by Patrick Donner of the deletion from the agenda by the council of the National Union of the Metropolitan Area of a resolution upholding the right of Conservative Party members to criticise party policy [see CHAR 2/197/126] and of his steps to publicise "this scandal".

Letter from the secretary to the chief organiser of the India Defence League (Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne) (48 Broadway, Westminster, [London]) to WSC (Chartwell) asking for particulars of any meetings he is addressing on the Indian question and offering assistance and literature.

Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, chief organiser of the India Defence League (48 Broadway, Westminster, [London]) to WSC (Chartwell) asking him to reply to an invitation to a meeting organised by the League at the Caxton Hall [London], which will be attended by many people interested in Indian pensions.

Letter from [WSC] to 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] asking whether he would like to fulfill his pledge to give a thousand pounds to the India Defence League. Carbon typescript copy.

Letter from [WSC] to Hugh Orr-Ewing [chief organiser of the India Defence League] enclosing a cheque for the League from 1st Lord Rothermere [earlier Sir Harold Harmsworth] and asking him to obtain references to certain remarks made by some of his opponents on the Indian question for use in the forthcoming debate in the House of Commons on the reappointment of the Joint Committee. Carbon typescript copy.

Newspaper cutting: extract from a speech [by the Viceroy of India, Lord Irwin, earlier Edward Wood, later Lord Halifax] calling on people in India to help the country achieve its ultimate goal as an equal partner in the British Empire. Sent with CHAR 2/197/140.

Cutting [from the Times]: letter from Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] arguing that the guarantee of Indian pensions by the British Treasury is unnecessary and would undermine the credit of the new Indian government. Sent with CHAR 2/197/144.

Letter from Archibald Campbell (11 Beaufort House, Beaufort Street, Chelsea, [London]) to [the editor of the Times] asking in response to a letter from Sir Samuel Hoare [later Lord Templewood] why the guarantee by the British government of Indian pensions is considered derogatory to the proposed Indian government whilst the intervention of the Governor-General in other administrative matters is not. Typescript copy sent with CHAR 2/197/144.

Letter from John S Boyd (Duncliffe, Dunoon, Argyll, [Scotland]) describing how criticism of the Government's Indian policy was suppressed at the Scottish Unionist Conference. Copy sent with CHAR 2/197/147.

Resolution passed at a meeting held by the India Defence League in the Caxton Hall [London] demanding that the British government maintain responsibility for all Indian service pensions. Sent with CHAR 2/197/150.

Letter from Vice-Admiral Cecil Usborne (85 Cadogan Gardens, [London]) to WSC expressing thanks for the silver plate presented to him by the India Defence League and mentioning his involvement with the play and film, "Clive".