India (nation)
Found in 7962 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), 25 Jun 1920
Letter from WSC (War Office) to 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith] suggesting he get [David Lloyd George] rather than WSC to suggest to Lord Curzon that Birkenhead speak on the Amritsar Massacre. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.
(Untitled), 02 Jul 1920
Letter from WSC (War Office) to Andrew Bonar Law on whether or not he (WSC) should take part in the debate on the censure of General Reginald Dyer over the Amritsar Massacre [India]. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.
(Untitled), 03 Jul 1920
Letter from Andrew Bonar Law (11 Downing Street) to WSC on WSC's letter [on what his role should be in the debate on the censure of General Reginald Dyer after the Amritsar Massacre].
(Untitled), 07 Jul 1920
Letter from Andrew Bonar Law (House of Commons) to WSC on the speeches by Sir Edward Carson [later Lord Carson], Edwin Montagu and WSC [in the debate on the censure of General Reginald Dyer after the Amritsar Massacre [India]].
(Untitled), 20 Sep 1920
Letter from [WSC] to Major-General the Maharajah of Bikaner thanking him for his letter agreeing with his views on India and hoping that he will benefit from his period of rest. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 18 Oct [1920]
Letter from the Maharajah of Alwar [India] (Paris, France) fondly recalling his time in England and expressing the wish that WSC could be [appointed viceroy of India] or failing him, Lord Willingdon.
(Untitled), 02 Dec 1920
Letter from the Aga Khan (Hotel Ritz, Place Vendome, Paris, [France]) to Edwin Montagu urging the British government to reverse its opposition to the humiliating peace terms imposed on Turkey, which are alienating the whole of the Islamic world and encouraging anti-British feeling in India.
(Untitled), 04 Dec 1920
Letter from WSC (War Office) to [David Lloyd George] arguing that the Government's anti-Turkish and pro-Bolshevik policy is harming British interests in India and the Middle East, is ruinously expensive, and is alienating the Liberals' Conservative coalition partners. Copy in the hand of Edward Marsh.
(Untitled), 17 Jun 1921
(Untitled), 16 Jul 1921
Letter from [WSC] to the Maharaja of Alwar [India] on: the imminent acceptance by the people in Mesopotamia [later Iraq] of Emir Feisal; the efforts to secure a better recognition of the status of Indians in the British colonies and the particular difficulties this poses in South Africa; the defeat of the miners in the coal strike and the improving economic prospects for Britain; the good qualities of the Viceroy of India [Lord Reading, earlier Sir Rufus Isaacs]. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 01 Mar 1921
(Untitled), 02 Apr 1921
(Untitled), 30 May 1921
(Untitled), 25 Nov 1920 - 19 Dec [1920]
Letter from Josiah Wedgwood (Lucknow, [India]) to WSC on: the difficulties caused by the fanatical Muslims in India; the elections in Greece; Ottoman suzerainty over Smyrna, Thrace and Arabia; the boycott by the Muslims of any of their number who do not boycott the British; the fate of Peter Wrangel [the evacuation of his forces from the Crimea] (25 Nov). Annotated by WSC: Prime Minister "great minds think alike" (19 Dec).
(Untitled), 21 Dec 1920
Letter from [WSC] to 17th Lord Derby arguing that Mustafa Kemal Pasha [later Ataturk] and a reconciled Turkey should be used as a barrier against the Bolsheviks and to safeguard British interests in the Middle East and India, and that an Anglo-French defensive alliance would be a good idea provided France agreed to let Germany revive economically and so form a barrier to the westward spread of Bolshevism. Also discusses Derby's Territorial Army division. Typescript copy.
(Untitled), 27 Jul 1915
Note by [Austen Chamberlain] for the Dardanelles Committee reporting the view of the Viceroy of India [Lord Hardinge of Penshurst] that failure of the Dardanelles expedition would encourage Pan-Islamism in India and cause the Muslims there to look to Turkey. Printed copy.
(Untitled), 31 Aug 1916
Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey (Committee of Imperial Defence) to WSC (41 Cromwell Road) enclosing a proof copy of part II of his evidence to the Dardanelles Commission of Inquiry [see CHAR 2/85/3] asking him not to make any allusions to certain secret matters relating to the defence of India. Signed typescript.
(Untitled), 23 Jan 1924
Letter from Charles Townshend (Riviera Palace Hotel, Monte Carlo) to WSC hoping he will "lead us in a new party against Bolshevism", describing the trouble which he believes would follow in Egypt and India if a Socialist government were installed, and referring to his withdrawal from the North Norfolk election due to laryngitis.
(Untitled), 23 Sep [1896]
Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Invermark, Brechin, to WSC, on his voyage to India, on her fishing trip to Scotland and family finances. Reporting conversation with the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII), advising him not to race in India as the races "are not square & the best of reputations get spoiled over it.
(Untitled), 15 Jan [1897]
Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, 35a Great Cumberland Place, to WSC, on John S Churchill's visit to France and on WSC's comments about the "odious" Anglo-Indian society.
(Untitled), 29 Jan [1897]
Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, 35a Great Cumberland Place, London, to WSC, on Frederick Roberts' polo accident; the lack of advancement in the Army compared with politics; John S Churchill's visit to France; "The Spec" the plague and famine in India and the treatment of Sir John Gorst by the Government.
(Untitled), 02 Apr [1897]
Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Hotel du Rhin, Paris, to WSC, on WSC's return from India, and on her visit to Monte Carlo and Paris, including account of dinner with the Prince of Wales, who advised WSC to stay in India and see something of the country.
(Untitled), 21 Sep [1897]
Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Langwell, Berriedale, Caithness, to WSC, on the war in India, including account of meeting with Lord Morley of Blackburn, also on the prosecution of James Cruikshank for financial fraud.
(Untitled), 30 Sep [1897]
Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill, Minto House, Hawick to WSC, on the war in India.
(Untitled), 07 Oct 1897
Letter from Lady Randolph Churchill [Edinburgh] to WSC, on the publication of WSC's letters from India in the Daily Telegraph.