India (nation)
Found in 7957 Collections and/or Records:
(Untitled), [Mar] [1935]
Memorandum by Sir Michael O'Dwyer [former Governor of Bengal, India (later also part of Bangladesh)] "Financial Inducements to the [Indian] Princes - Part VII of the India Bill, Chapter I, Clauses 134-147". [Carbon].
(Untitled), 13 Apr 1935
Letter from John Morgan, Counsel to the Indian Chamber of Princes, (2 Kings Bench Walk, Temple, London EC4) to WSC, stating that he had received instructions from the Princes on the possibility of amending the India Bill so as to meet their objections.
(Untitled), 17 Apr [1934]
Letter from Field Marshal 1st Lord Birdwood, [former Commander-in-Chief, India] (Peterhouse College, Cambridge), to "Jack" [? John S Churchill], asking him to congratulate WSC on his speech on India [with note from Larry Arnn, stating that the letter must be dated 1934].
(Untitled), 01 Apr 1935
Reprint from the Morning Post of an article "Services that Gave Prosperity to India - Irrigation and Forest Conservancy, Abolition of the British Element" by Sir Michael O'Dwyer [former Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, India (later also part of Bangladesh)].
(Untitled), 08 May 1935
Letter from Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, (98 Elm Park Gardens, London SW10) to WSC, enclosing a memorandum written after the Burma debate in the House of Commons, on the continuation of high duties on British cotton goods in Burma [later Myanmar], in spite of the proposed separation from India.
(Untitled), 08 May 1935
(Untitled), 17 May 1935
Letter from Sir Michael O'Dwyer [former Lieutenant- Governor of Bengal, India (later also part of Bangladesh)] (22 Prince of Wales Terrace, London), to WSC, enclosing a memorandum on the inducements offered to the Indian Princes to accept the Government of India Bill. [Copy of CHAR 2/240B/95-104].
(Untitled), 17 May 1935
Letter from Sir Henry Croft, (15 Southwell Gardens, Gloucester Road [London]) to WSC, enclosing a copy of a letter from Samuel Hoare [Secretary of State for India, later 1st Lord Templewood], to Lord Wolmer [Chairman, Executive Committee, India Defence League, later 3rd Lord Selborne] on the timetable for the Report Stage of the Government of India Bill.
(Untitled), 26 May [1935]
Letter from Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, (98 Elm Park Gardens, [London]) to WSC, on the debate on the Third Reading of the Government of India Bill, enclosing notes on the Fiscal Convention governing the fiscal relations between Britain and India.
(Untitled), 20 May 1935
Letter from "Top" [Lord Wolmer, later 3rd Lord Selborne, Chairman, Executive Committee, India Defence League] (3 Chester Gate, Regent's Park [London]), to WSC, regretting that he was unable to attend dinner [at Claridges Hotel] for opponents of the Government of India Bill; also stating his intention to move the rejection of the Bill at the Third Reading.
(Untitled), 25 May 1935
Letter from WSC to Lord Wolmer, [Chairman, Executive Committee, India Defence League, later 3rd Lord Selborne] approving his intention to move the rejection of the Government of India Bill at the Third Reading. [Carbon].
(Untitled), 28 May 1935
Letter from Lord Wolmer [Chairman, Executive Committee, India Defence League, later 3rd Lord Selborne] (3 Chester Gate, Regent's Park [London]), to WSC, on his weakness following an attack of bronchitis; stating that he did not intend to attend the House of Commons that week, and would reserve himself for the Third Reading of the India Bill; also on the intrigues of Sir Samuel Hoare [Secretary of State for India, later 1st Lord Templewood] in dealing with the Indian Princes.
(Untitled), 29 May 1935
Letter from WSC to 4th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne], on dinner for opponents of the Government of India Bill; stating that the object was to rally forces in the House of Commons for the Third Reading, and to hand over "the continuance of the battle to you and the House of Lords". [Carbon].
(Untitled), 01 Jun 1935
Letter from 11th Lord Middleton [earlier Michael Willoughby] (Birdsall House, Malton, Yorkshire) to WSC with thanks for his hospitality at the dinner at Claridges Hotel [London] for opponents of the Government of India Bill; commenting that he enjoyed it enormously, and was delighted to hear the "robust views" of those who were not "scared out of their wits by the idea of Empire", and that he hoped that they could effect a change to the bill in the House of Lords.
(Untitled), 01 Jun 1935
Letter from Sir Henry Croft, (15 Southwell Gardens, Gloucester Road [London]) to WSC, with congratulations on the success of his dinner for opponents of the Government of India Bill, which formed a "rallying point for Conservative and Imperial thought".
(Untitled), 01 Jun 1935
Letter from Sir Nairne Stewart-Sandeman, (61 Tufton Street, Westminster [London]) to WSC, with congratulations on the success of his dinner for opponents of the Government of India Bill; regretting that the speech by 4th Lord Salisbury [earlier Lord Cranborne] could not be broadcast, as it summed up the "unexpressed feelings of the people of the country".
(Untitled), 17 Jun 1935
(Untitled), 19 Jun 1935
Letter from A Morley Fletcher, Private Secretary to Katharine, Duchess of Atholl to the Private Secretary to WSC, enclosing a press cutting from the National Citizen, "Terrorism and Congress: The Sinn Fein of the East".
(Untitled), 01 Jul 1935
(Untitled), 07 Jun 1935
Letter from C S Blackmore, ("The Bunglalow", S. Lawrence [London]) to WSC, on opposition to the Government of India Bill; asking if he should vote Labour instead of Conservative at the next General Election.
(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].