India (nation)
Found in 7965 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 19 Jul 1934
Circular letter from eight textile businesses to members of Manchester Chamber of Commerce on forthcoming debate on trade with India [printed].
(Untitled), 23 Jul 1934
Letter from Sir Henry Page Croft (later Lord Croft), Southwell Gardens, London, to WSC, enclosing leaflet, "Lancashire and India" , commenting that the "Indian issue" had stirred up a "very considerable section of people in Lancashire".
(Untitled), 24 Jul 1934
Letter from John Gretton, Belgrave Square, London to WSC, congratulations on success of meeting in Manchester, opposing Government policy on India.
(Untitled), 26 Jul 1934
Letter from WSC to James Watts Junior, congratulations on excellent work opposing the Government's policy on India in Lancashire. Stating that it was important not to let the campaign stop, but to fight for effective safeguards for the Lancashire cotton trade [carbon].
(Untitled), 28 Jul 1934
Letter from James Watts Junior, Cheadle, Cheshire, to WSC, on debate in Manchester Chamber of Commerce on the Lancashire cotton trade and India.
(Untitled), 08 Aug 1934
Letter from WSC to Alan Chorlton MP, congratulations to him and Harold Robinson for organising opposition to Government policy on India, particularly in Manchester Chamber of Commerce [carbon].
(Untitled), 08 Aug 1934
Letter from Harold Robinson, Chepstow Street, Manchester, to WSC, on opposition to the Government policy on India in Lancashire, enclosing cuttings from the Manchester Guardian.
(Untitled), 13 Aug 1934
Letter from Herbert Whitworth Limited, Princess Street, Manchester, to WSC, enclosing copy of letter to the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' Associations on Lancashire trade with India.
(Untitled), 26 Dec 1931
Letter from Colonel Stuart Graham (Bangalore, India) to WSC, expressing pleasure at reading "My Early Life", and reminiscing about his own service, particularly in India, and on present day conditions in India, suggesting that Mohandas Gandhi and his supporters should be deported to "some out of the way spot like St Helena" and not allowed any communication with India; includes visiting card.
(Untitled), 23 Sep 1935
Letter from [? Ghanshyam] Birla, (Birla House, Albuquerque Road, New Delhi [India]), to WSC, with thanks for his hospitality during Birla's visit to London; reporting a conversation with Mohandas Gandhi, who said "I have got a good recollection of Mr Churchill when he was in the Colonial Office, and somehow or other since then I have held the opinion that I can always rely on his sympathy and goodwill".
(Untitled), 21 Nov 1935
Letter from Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, (Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, [Perthshire, Scotland]) to WSC, asking him to meet Mr Barton, Master of the Trades Organisation at Bangalore, India; asking if he could prevent the inhabitants of Bangalore from being deprived of their status as British citizens, as the region was in Mysore territory.
(Untitled), [1935]
Printed precis of address given by Brigadier Lionel Fanshawe [former Director of Ordnance Services in India], "India in a Nut-shell", with extracted notes on the Indian population and proportion of voting.
(Untitled), [1935]
Printed pamphlet, "The Men Who Know - Prominent Supporters of the India Defence League" I.D.L. Pamphlet No.13.
(Untitled), 02 Jan 1935
Circular from Sir Alfred Knox and Patrick Donner, India Defence Parliamentary Committee, on the Second Reading and Committee Stage of the India Bill; includes note to Violet Pearman [Private Secretary to WSC].
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1935
Letter from David Woodford, Press and Information Officer, India Defence League, to WSC, on an approach from the Bristol Evening Post for an article by WSC on the Indian question; reporting that the paper had been a supporter of the League in the past; includes note to WSC on the ownership of the paper.
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1935
Letter from Hugh Orr-Ewing, Chief Organizer, India Defence League, to Violet Pearman [Private Secretary to WSC], enclosing telegrams on India addressed to WSC [at CHAR 2/241A/8-11].
(Untitled), 04 Jan 1935
Telegram from the Calcutta Bar Council to WSC, suggesting that the British element in the Indian High Courts should be further eliminated, and that the post of Chief Justice should not be open to members of the Indian Civil Service.
(Untitled), 10 Jan 1935
Letter from [Violet Pearman] Private Secretary to WSC, to David Woodford, [Press and Information Officer, India Defence League]; suggesting that one of WSC's articles on India for the Daily Mail be reused in the Bristol Evening World. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1935
(Untitled), 14 Jan 1935
Letter from Sir Henry Croft, (15 Southwell Gardens, Gloucester Road [London]) to WSC, on his intention to invite the Council of the India Defence League and sympathetic MPs to a tea party; asking if WSC would be willing to give a brief speech "by way of heartening the troops".
(Untitled), 17 Jan 1935
Letter from WSC to Sir Henry Croft, (15 Southwell Gardens, Gloucester Road [London]) on Croft's intention to invite the Council of the India Defence League and sympathetic MPs to a tea party; stating that he hoped to attend, but would not be able to make a speech. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 18 Jan 1935
Letter from Brigadier Lionel Fanshawe, Honorary Secretary of the India Defence League, South Kensington Group, to WSC, on an attack on WSC and the other India "rebels" in speeches by 1st Lord Hardinge [of Penshurst, former Viceroy of India] and Herbert Spender-Clay [MP for Tonbridge, Kent] at a meeting of the Conservative Secretaries Guild at Tunbridge Wells, Kent, enclosing a cutting from the [Tunbridge Wells] Courier.
(Untitled), 19 Jan 1935
Letter from Osborn Dan (Wateringbury Place, Wateringbury, Kent) to WSC, on a meeting of the India Defence League, which unanimously condemned the proposals contained in the India White Paper, enclosing a report of the meeting from the Tunbridge Wells Courier.
(Untitled), 25 Jan 1935
Letter from Guy DuBoulay, Assistant Organizer, India Defence League, to Violet Pearman [Private Secretary to WSC], on support for the work of the League in the Sevenoaks constituency [Kent], despite the opposition of the MP, Sir Edward Hilton Young [later 1st Lord Kennet]. Enclosing copy of a letter from Aileen Bonham Carter (Rousham, Westerham, Kent).
(Untitled), 28 Jan 1935
Letter from Colonel C Alexander, Honorary Secretary of the India Defence League, Bristol Group, to WSC with congratulations on the success of his speech on the Government of India Bill, in Bristol on 25 January.