Janus: The Papers of Leopold Amery

Churchill/AMEL 1 contains:
1	The Times, South Africa and "The Problem of the Army"
2	Political, up to First World War
3	First World War, Colonial Office and Admiralty
4	Secretary of State for the Colonies
5	General political, 1930s
6	India Office and the Second World War
7	1940's and post-war

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The Papers of Leopold Amery

Title	India Office and the Second World War
Reference	AMEL 1/6
Covering Dates	1934–1955 (The majority of files date from 1939-45.)
Extent and Medium	12 archive boxes

Content and context

Papers, correspondence and speeches from LSA's time in the War Cabinet as Secretary of State for India and Burma, including: memoranda written by LSA on India and other subjects for the War Cabinet; telegrams and minutes issued and received by LSA on Indian political and military affairs, mainly consisting of messages to and from the Viceroy of India (initially 2nd Lord Linlithgow, [earlier Lord Hopetoun], then 1st Lord Wavell) and also the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill; papers on the formation of India's post-war constitution; general correspondence on post-war India; speeches on India and other subjects, such as trade and post-war reconstruction.

Further information

See also the British Documents at the End of the Empire Project, (Institute of Commonwealth Studies].

See also AMEL 2/3/12-13 and 2/3/16-32, for LSA's private correspondence with the Viceroy and provincial governors.

See also the records of the India Office at the British Library and edited versions of letters and telegrams between LSA and the Viceroy in "The Transfer of Power, 1942-7, edited by Nicholas Mansergh.

Index Terms

Second World War (1939-1945)

India Office

Churchill/AMEL 1/6 contains:

House of Commons speeches. Texts of LSA's speeches on subjects including: the Anschluss between Germany and Austria; unemployment and economic conditions; the Anglo-Italian Agreement (May 1938); the Budget (1938); confirmation of the Eire Agreement [Ireland]; National Service; colonial policy; Palestine; the international situation regarding preparation for war; securing supplies, particularly from the United States, which would otherwise go to Germany; the Education (Emergency) Bill; post-war Europe; war pensions and allowances; the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provision) Act, relating to child support; the wartime export trade and economic organization; food prices; the Budget (1940).
1 file.

Mar 1938-Apr 1940

Speeches and memoranda. Texts of speeches and memoranda by LSA on subjects including: the world economy, particularly the role of the United States and the Empire; Anglo-American relations; control of international trade, particularly in protecting the Empire; post-war planning, including new housing, social, health care and educational reform and a change in economic policy; policy in Western Europe, relating to Germany as the boundary between the West and Eastern Europe, and the defence of Western Europe; employment policy, as related to imports and exports; setting up the International Monetary Fund and International Commercial Union; commercial policy. Also includes: correspondence between LSA and Geoffrey Dawson [Editor of the Times, earlier Geoffrey Robinson] on faults in the 1939 War Cabinet, LSA's complaint about not being included in it and the organisation of Economic Warfare; notes for LSA's memoirs on Franklin Roosevelt, President of the United States, and the coming of war in 1941.
1 file.

Sep 1939-Mar 1945

Articles on post-war settlement. Texts and prints of articles by LSA on subjects including: problems with a federal Europe; protecting the Empire; the future of Parliament; European unity.
1 file.

Sep 1934-Jan 1943

Peace Aims: federation and reconstruction. Correspondence and articles on post-war planning, with correspondents (mainly commenting on a speech by LSA) including: Sir Hubert Henderson [Economic Adviser to the Treasury] on LSA's views for international economic co-operation; Lionel Curtis on organic reconstruction; [Alfred] Duff Cooper [later 1st Lord Norwich] on his concerns for the Conservative Party after the war, and his friend Emery Reves [Imre Revesz]; Clement Attlee, disagreeing with LSA over the changed role of the Empire; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken] on post-war trade. Also includes: articles by Arthur Greenwood, recalling Parliament during the outbreak of war; reprint of a broadcast by Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, on a four-year post-war plan for Britain; copies of letters from LSA on reconstruction and European federalism to individuals including Emery Reves, [Edward] Max Nicholson, Arthur Greenwood, Reginald Hills, Henry Brailsford, Rennie Smith [Secretary, Friends of Europe], Henry Drummond-Wolff and Sir Herbert Williams.
1 file.

Oct 1939-Sep 1949

War ideas: correspondence. Correspondents include: F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell] on LSA's ideas for holding Imperial War Cabinet meetings by wireless telephone or television [conference calls] and bomb disposal (2); Bernard Sendall, Admiralty; Major Ernest Belcher on improving fuel consumption in naval engines (6); Geoffrey Shakespeare [Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Admiralty] (2); Geoffrey Geoffrey-Lloyd, Secretary for Mines; John Postlethwaite; Ashley Brown on problems with billeting evacuees; 1st Lord Hankey, Paymaster-General (2); Colin Thornley, Principal Private Secretary to Secretary of State for the Colonies; [George] David Roseway [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War] (2); A V Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty; Charles Wright, Director of Scientific Research, Admiralty, on LSA idea for a desert craft used on land and in the air (3); Edward Salt on the Food Defence Fish Emergency Scheme (or the problem of fish supplies for Birmingham [Warwickshire]); Sir Archibald Sinclair [Secretary of State for Air, later 1st Lord Thurso] (2); George Finch [Professor of Applied Physical Chemistry, University of London] on his ideas for bomb design; Sydney Chapman [Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of London] on Finch's ideas for bomb design; Lionel James on reviving King Edward's Horse (oversea dominions' regiment) (2); Oliver Stanley, Secretary of State for War, on King Edward's Horse; Ralph Furse [Director of Recruitment, Colonial Service] on King Edward's Horse (5); 1st Lord Horne; James McGregor [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War]; Vernon Bovenizer [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for War]; Paul Waller on anti-aircraft defences (5); Henry Wooldridge, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; William Elliot, Assistant Secretary to the War Cabinet (2). Also includes: papers on Ernest Belcher's Plomien Fuel Economiser; notes by Sydney Chapman on George Finch's bomb designs; notes by Lionel James on reviving King Edward's Horse.
1 file.

Jan 1939-Jan 1945

Letters of congratulation on LSA's appointment as Secretary of State for India. Correspondents include: Sir James Barrett; John Dodge; Eric Dutton, Colonial Secretary, Bermuda; Jan Hofmeyr [South African Minister of Finance and of Education]; Sir Maurice Hallett, Governor of United Provinces, India, on the state of LSA's birthplace, Gorakhpur; Kavalam Panikkar, Foreign and Political Department, Bikaner State; Richard Bennett; Jacques Bardoux on the hope given to France by the new British Cabinet; [?] W S Robinson; Violet Carruthers [Violet Markham] on her hopes for the war; Sir Chirravoori Chintamani on India's lack of defences; Gordon Bottomley; Herbert Fisher, Warden of New College, Oxford; Robert Holland Martin, Chairman of the Southern Railway Company; 2nd Lord Linlithgow [Viceroy and Governor-General of India, earlier Lord Hopetoun] (2); Sir Frank Fox; Sir Herbert Stanley, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Southern Rhodesia [later Zimbabwe]; Sir Cecil Hunter-Rodwell; Harold Laski; Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate; Field Marshal 1st Lord Birdwood; Dorothea, Lady Butterworth; Lieutenant-General Sir Bertie Fisher; Sir Philip Macdonell; Lionel James; Sir Alan Lascelles; Gervas Huxley; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; Sir Firoz Khan Noon, High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom; Sir Fabian Ware; Sir Charles Merrett, Vice-President of the Australian Canned Fruits Board; Demetrius Caclamanos; Katherine Mayo; Thomas Fry; [Robert] Anthony Eden, Secretary of State for War [later 1st Lord Avon]; [William] Lionel Hichens; Sir George Macdonogh; Sir Halford Mackinder; Sir William Clark; Sir Herbert Williams; Francis Hirst; Sir George Schuster; 1st Lord Tryon; Lady Violet Bonham-Carter [earlier Lady Violet Asquith, later Violet, Lady Asquith of Yarnbury]; Clement Jones; F A Lindemann [later 1st Lord Cherwell]; 1st Lord Bledisloe [earlier Charles Bathurst]; Robert Bower; John Walter; Lewis Namier; [Arthur] Paul Boissier, Headmaster of Harrow School; James de Rothschild; Sir Malcolm Robertson; Dame Christabel Pankhurst; Marshal of the RAF 1st Lord Trenchard; Sir [William] Frederick O'Connor; Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams; Margot, Lady Davson; Dame Edith Lyttelton; Edgar Record, Editor of the Birmingham Post; Sir Henry Strakosch; Bernard Freyberg and Francis Fisher; Sir Ernest Oppenheimer; 2nd Duke of Westminster [earlier Lord Belgrave]; William Adams, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford; Eduard Benes [President of the Czechoslovak National Committee]; Tewfik Aras, Turkish Ambassador to Britain; Sir Derrick Gunston; John Murray, Principal of the University College of the South West of England; Sir Edward Peacock; Sir Roderick Jones [Principal Proprietor of Reuters].
1 file.

May 1940-Jun 1940

Letters of resignation of directorships. Correspondence on LSA's resignation from his directorships on becoming Secretary of State for India, with correspondents including: 1st Lord Trenchard [Director of Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company (Great Britain) Limited] (3); Simon Marks [Chairman and Joint Managing Director, Marks and Spencer Limited] (2); Sir Dougal Malcolm [President of the British South West Africa Company] (3); Sir Charles Merrett [Vice-President of the Australian Canned Fruits Board].
1 file.

May 1940-Jul 1940

Letters of congratulation on Yugoslav broadcast. Letters on LSA's broadcast to the Yugoslav nation (26 March) just prior to the fall of Yugoslavia's pro-German government, with correspondents including: Edward Shrapnell-Smith; Percy Groves, Political Intelligence Department, Foreign Office; 19th Lord Sempill; Sir Thomas Hohler; Sir Frank Fox; Geoffrey Harrison, Foreign Office; Domini, Lady Crosfield [Anglo-Hellenic League]; [Edward] George Spencer-Churchill; George Jarrett; Vernon Malcolmson. Also includes: congratulatory message from LSA to the new Yugoslav Foreign Minister.
1 file.

Mar 1941-Apr 1941

LSA's War Cabinet papers. War Cabinet memoranda by LSA, with telegrams between LSA and the Governor-General [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun], on subjects including: general policy on India, particularly relating to the framing of the new constitution, with draft statements on British policy towards India and a note by Major-General Robert Lockhart on the effect of the new constitution upon Indian personnel in the Indian Army; inter-Allied and inter-Imperial co-operation (written jointly with 1st Lord Hankey, Paymaster-General); Lease-Lend Aid from the United States (with memoranda by Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio, Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord Cranborne [later 5th Lord Salisbury], Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, and also messages from the American Department of State and between [Robert] Anthony Eden [later 1st Lord Avon], Foreign Secretary, and 1st Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the United States [earlier Edward Wood and 1st Lord Irwin]); the supply of British officers for the Indian Army; policy to be adopted towards Mohandas Gandhi, particularly if he undertook a fast (including a telegram from Linlithgow); report by Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Lord Privy Seal on his mission to India; Indian sterling balances; action to be taken, if necessary, against the Indian National Congress; reconstruction in Burma [later Myanmar] after reoccupation; India as a factor in Anglo-American relations; a ministerial crisis in Sind; inviting Shrinivas Rajagopalachari to visit Britain; the performance of the Congress Ministries, 1937-39; colonial policy; the plan for a United Nations; membership of the Governor-General's Executive Council for India; policy in Burma; post-war commercial policy, particularly relating to the Dominions; civil aviation, a state monopoly of aviation and an Empire policy; economic expansion; the coal situation in India; appointing the new Finance Member for India; the sterling problem; the proposed reconstitution of the Governor-General's Executive Council; report of the committee on basic English.
2 files.

Jul 1940-Feb 1945

India Office and War Cabinet papers. War Cabinet memoranda including: memoranda by LSA on the preparation of more troops in India for service overseas, the question of action against the Indian Congress Party, the release of Satyagrahi prisoners (particularly Kalim Azad and Shri Jawaharlal Nehru) and India's war effort; memoranda by the Chiefs of Staff Committee on the provision of further forces by India; note by General Sir Archibald Wavell, Commander-in-Chief, India, on Indian military problems; print of telegrams between Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, the Viceroy of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun], Wavell and General Sir Claude Auchinleck, Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, on command in the Middle East; memorandum by Marshal of the RAF Sir Cyril Newall, Chief of the Air Staff, on air reinforcements for the Middle East; memorandum by Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary [earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on the assembly of aircraft in Burma [later Myanmar] or India for the Chinese Government; joint memorandum by LSA and Sir Andrew Duncan, Minister of Supply, on the Eastern Group Conference on supply to the Eastern Empire; note by the Secretary of State for the Colonies [1st Lord Lloyd] on India and the war, commenting on a statement by LSA on Indian constitutional reform; print of telegrams between Churchill and Linlithgow on the new constitution; telegrams between LSA, Linlithgow and Churchill on the release of Satyagrahi prisoners; report by the Lord Privy Seal [Clement Attlee] on the release of Satyagrahi prisoners.
1 file.

Jun 1940-Jan 1942

LSA's memoranda to the War Cabinet. War Cabinet memoranda by LSA on subjects including: the Lease-Lend Agreement with the United States; Europe and the post-war settlement, on a possible European union; the plan for a United Nations; the intermediate future for Europe and the Empire; post-war civilian air transport; economic discussions with the United States; Imperial Preference and commercial policy; the future of Western Europe, particularly post-war Germany.
1 file.

Jan 1942-Aug 1944

Printed private telegrams to and from Secretary of State for India. Telegrams on Indian political and military affairs, mainly between LSA and the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun], but also between LSA and other correspondents including: the Governor of Burma [later Myanmar] [Sir Archibald Cochrane]; the Governor of Madras [Arthur Hope, later 2nd Lord Rankeillour]; the Governor of Assam [Sir Robert Reid]; the Governor of Bombay [Sir Lawrence Lumley, later 11th Lord Scarbrough]; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [Minister for Aircraft Production, earlier Max Aitken]; Mahomed Jinnah; the Governor of Bengal [Sir John Herbert]; Sir Firoz Khan Noon [High Commissioner for India]; King George VI, sending a message of congratulation to the Indian Army; Sir Philip Chetwode [Chairman of Executive Committee of Red Cross and St John Joint War Organisation].
2 files.

May 1940-Oct 1941

Printed private telegrams to and from Secretary of State for India. Telegrams on Indian political and military affairs, mainly between LSA and the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun] but also between LSA and other correspondents including: the Governor of Burma [later Myanmar] [Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith]; the Governor of Bengal [Sir John Herbert]; Henry, Duke of Gloucester; the Governor of Bombay [Sir Lawrence Lumley, later 11th Lord Scarbrough]; the British Ambassador to the United States [Lord Halifax, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin]; the Governor of Sind [Sir Hugh Dow]; the Governor of Madras [Arthur Hope, later 2nd Lord Rankeillour].
2 files.

Mar 1942-Dec 1942

Printed private telegrams to and from Secretary of State for India. Telegrams on Indian political and military affairs, mainly between LSA and the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun, up to October 1943, then Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell], but also between LSA and other correspondents including: the Governor of Burma [later Myanmar] [Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith]; the Governor of Bengal [Sir John Herbert, up to September 1943, then Sir Thomas Rutherford, to January 1944, then Richard Casey]; the Governor of Bombay [Sir David Colville, later 1st Lord Clydesmuir]; Firoz Khan Noon, Defence Member, Government of India; Admiral Sir James Somerville [Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet]; the Governor of Madras [Arthur Hope, later 2nd Lord Rankeillour].
2 files.

Jan 1943-Jul 1945

Telegrams from Secretary of State for India to Viceroy. Copies of telegrams from LSA to the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun, up to October 1943, then Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell] on subjects including: naval defence of India; talks with Mohandas Gandhi; formation of the new constitution for India; the appointment of General Sir Claude Auchinleck or General Sir Archibald Wavell as Commander-in-Chief, India; the extension of Linlithgow's tenure and his successor as Viceroy; the expansion of the Viceroy's council; appointing Field Marshal Sir John Dill as Governor-Designate of Bombay; the broadcast by Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, to India appealing for unity; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to the Indian National Congress, to discuss self-government; Churchill's unreasonable attitude to India; replacing Sir Thomas Stewart as Governor of Bihar; finding a successor for Lawrence Lumley [later 11th Lord Scarbrough] as Governor of Bombay; Wavell's appointment as Linlithgow's successor; Arthur Hope [Governor of Madras, later 2nd Lord Rankeillour]; army pay. Also includes: telegrams from Churchill to LSA and Linlithgow on subjects including proposals to expand Linlithgow's Council, the new constitution, the appointment of Wavell and Linlithgow's successor; telegram from Wavell to Eugenie, Lady Wavell on his appointment as Viceroy.
1 file.

Jul 1940-Feb 1945

Telegrams from Viceroy to Secretary of State for India. Copies of telegrams from the Viceroy and Governor-General of India [2nd Lord Linlithgow, earlier Lord Hopetoun, up to October 1943, then Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell] to LSA on subjects including: defence of India; the new constitution and the expansion of the Viceroy's Council; the appointment of General Sir Claude Auchinleck or General Sir Archibald Wavell as Commander-in-Chief, India; the extension of Linlithgow's tenure; appointing Field Marshal Sir John Dill as Governor-Designate of Bombay and Arthur Hope, later 2nd Lord Rankeillour as Governor of Madras; the broadcast by Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, to India appealing for unity; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to the Indian National Congress, to discuss self-government; mob violence; Sir Thomas Stewart, Governor of Bihar and the situation in Bihar; deciding on Linlithgow's successor; Mahatma Gandhi's fast; leakage of information.
1 file.

Jun 1940-Feb 1945

Speech by Secretary of State for India. Annotated advance copy of a speech to Parliament by LSA on British proposals for India's new constitution.
1 file.

c Jan 1945-c Jul 1945

Correspondence on the proposed new constitution for India. Correspondents include: 2nd Lord Zetland [former Secretary of State for India and Burma, earlier Lord Ronaldshay], recalling his proposals to the Cabinet on an Indian settlement in 1940; Lionel Curtis, former Assistant Colonial Secretary to the Transvaal [South Africa], recalling his dealings with the Indian National Congress in 1916; Eric Seal [Principal Private Secretary to Winston Churchill, Prime Minister]; Churchill, on the proposed new constitution (2); Lord Halifax [Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] on the proposals and Churchill's view; Sir Arthur Lothian, former Secretary (Federation) and Special Representative of the Viceroy in federal discussions with Indian States, on LSA's view that the Indian Princes had caused the failure of plans for a federal India. Also includes: summaries of LSA's correspondence with 2nd Lord Linlithgow [Viceroy and Governor-General of India, earlier Lord Hopetoun], and related diary entries; prints of statements by Linlithgow, the Indian National Congress, the All-India Moslem League and Chamber of Princes on India and the war, 1940; notes for LSA's memoirs or published diaries, including his notes from War Cabinet minutes; letters from LSA to the Prime Minister [Winston Churchill], asking Cabinet to discuss Linlithgow's proposals on India, on his dealings with Linlithgow and concessions demanded by India; letter from LSA to Vincent Massey [High Commissioner for Canada in Britain] on the appointment of an Indian High Commissioner in British Columbia.
2 files.

Apr 1940-Mar 1955

References to Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell in LSA's diaries. Collected extracts on Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, 1939-1941 and Commander-in-Chief, India, 1941-43].
1 file; Fragile..

Feb 1939-Oct 1943

Indian Constitution. Papers on proposals for India's new constitution, including: notes on a suggested visit to India by LSA; notes for LSA's memoirs; extracts from Hansard on the food situation in India; [?] notes taken by LSA in War Cabinet meetings on [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to the Indian National Congress and General 1st Lord Wavell [Commander-in-Chief, India] and his proposals to the India Committee; text of LSA speech on the Indian food situation and annotated letter to the Birmingham Post on the Bengal famine; telegrams between LSA and William Hughes on the Indian negotiations and the importance of Britain making a good impression on Herbert Evatt [Australian representative in the British War Cabinet], with covering letter from Clement Attlee, Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.
1 file.

Mar 1942-Oct 1943

India Office to Prime Minister. Copies of minutes from LSA to Winston Churchill on subjects including: the food situation; the Governorship of Madras; industrial development; a visit to Britain by General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, India]; political prisoners; the possibility of the Foreign Office taking over the India Office; Palestine; Italian prisoners of war in India; post-war civil aviation; releasing Mohandas Gandhi; the Governorship of Bengal; self-government of Burma; finances; proposals by Lord Louis Mountbatten for his own medical staff in India; South East Asia Command; reductions in the Indian Army; growth in the Indian population; the campaign against Japan; extending the Viceroy's authority; paying tribute to the performance of Indian troops; American requests to see Gandhi and other interventions; the governorship of Bihar; finding successors for 2nd Lord Linlithgow [Viceroy and Governor-General of India, earlier Lord Hopetoun], and Lawrence Lumley [Governor of Bombay, later 11th Lord Scarbrough]; support for the Hindu Mahasabha; Gandhi and Japan; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to the Indian National Congress, to discuss self-government; Congress's resolution to defy the Government; developing air power in India; joint efforts with American forces against Japan; the new constitution. Also includes: minutes from Churchill warning LSA against stirring up the constitutional issue; minutes by R A Butler, President of the Board of Education, on exporting grain to India.
2 files.

Jul 1940-Jul 1945

War Cabinet: India Committee. Annotated memorandum by the Chairman of the committee on LSA's recommendations for the future constitution of India, with notes in response by LSA and notes by LSA's advisers. Also includes: [?] notes for LSA's memoirs.
1 file.

Jan 1945

Notes and articles on India's post-war settlement. Notes [by an unknown writer] on LSA's view of India's new constitution.
1 file.

"Notes on current politics: India". Printed pamphlet, published by Conservative Party Headquarters.
1 file.

13 Jan 1947

Cuttings, articles and correspondence on post-war India. Includes: articles on Mahomed Jinnah, Mohandas Gandhi and Shri Jawaharlal Nehru; notes for LSA's memoirs; lecture by LSA on Indian constitutional development during the war; prints of Government statements on India and correspondence with the Congress Party and Muslim League; obituaries for Jinnah; proof of a paper by 1st Lord Pethick-Lawrence [former Secretary of State for India], "Indian constitutional development: the last stage before self-government"; article by Sir Compton Mackenzie on 1st Lord Mountbatten's record as Viceroy of India; speech by 1st Lord Ismay, former Chief of Staff to Mountbatten, on his recollections of India in 1947; issue of the Economist on political and economic progress in India, "India: Progress and Plan".
1 file.

Jun 1945-Jan 1955

India and Burma: correspondence A - Z. Correspondents include: Clement Attlee, Prime Minister; Sir George Abell [Private Secretary to the Viceroy] on the difficulties with the main political parties; Bhimrao Ambedkar; Sir Frank Brown, Secretary of the East India Association; Robert Barrington-Ward, Editor of the Times (3); Hollis Burrows, representative for the Indian Prince's magazine, "Indian India" (2); John Gandee, Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for India; Sir [David] John Colville, Governor of Bombay [later 1st Lord Clydesmuir] on the process of partition; Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps (2); Richard Casey, Governor of Bengal (3); George Crosfield; [Rajani] Palme Dutt, editor of India and the World; J Chinna Jurai (6); Somerset de Chair; Harihar Das (4); Alexander Edington; Sir Percival Griffiths, President, India, Pakistan and Burma Association, on subjects including the divisions between the Congress and the Moslem League (2); [Henry] Wilson Harris, Editor of the Spectator; Thomas Hutton, Editor of the Birmingham Post; Sir Arthur Hope, former Governor of Madras [later 2nd Lord Rankeillour] on subjects including the lack of food in Madras; Francis Turnbull [Frank Turnbull, Principal Private Secretary to 1st Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India] (3); Sir Maurice Hallett, Governor of United Provinces, on subjects including thanking LSA for his support; Sir Thomas Hutton, sympathising with LSA on leaving office; 1st Lord Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Viceroy of India], on LSA's suggestions for partition; 5th Lord Listowel [Secretary of State for India, then for Burma, earlier Lord Ennismore] on subjects including European members of the Burmese civil service and Government Railway Servants in India, relations between the Indian Princes and the British Crown, establishing a Centre of Oriental Culture in London and plans for partition (11); Sir Henry Lawrence on a scheme for giving Pakistan its own defence force; 1st Lord Mountbatten, Governor-General of India, on subjects including Mahatma Gandhi's death, the new constitution and LSA's idea for an Indian Commonwealth (5); Sir Walter Monckton, on subjects including the future of Hyderabad, (with a copy of a letter to R A Butler on independence for Indian states) (5); Sir [Ashton] Mosley Mayne, on avoiding civil war in India; Sir Archibald Nye [Governor of Madras]; Sir [John] Gilbert Laithwaite [Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Burma]; Godfrey Nicholson; Sir Firoz Khan Noon, Defence Member, Council of India; Sir Eustace Missenden, General Manager, Southern Railway; Lord Pethick-Lawrence on trying to form an interim government (5); Sir Paul Patrick [Assistant Under-Secretary of State, India Office]; Sir [Herbert] Stanley Reed; [Florence] Elsa, Lady Richmond; Sir Frederick Sykes, President, East India Association; Sir [Ramaswami] Srinivasa Sarma, Managing Editor of the Calcutta Whip; T P Tunnard-Moore, Director of the Dominions and India Department, British Council (3); Sir Gilbert Wiles [Adviser to Secretary of State for India]. Also includes: copies of letters from LSA to Sir John Anderson [later 1st Lord Waverley], the Aga Khan (III), R A Butler, Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell [Viceroy and Governor-General of India], Frances, Lady Davidson [later Baroness Northchurch], Peter Fraser, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar, Harold Macmillan [later 1st Lord Stockton], 1st Lord Simon, Sir William Spens and 6th Lord Winterton [earlier Lord Turnour]; text of a review by LSA for F Tennyson Jesse's "The Story of Burma"; report by Sir Homi Mehta, Chairman of Bombay War Gift Fund, on the welfare of Indian troops overseas; text of lecture by Kavalam Panikkar [Prime Minister, Bikaner State] on Indian policy towards the states of the Indian Ocean, and memorandum on the organisation of Indo-British relations.
2 files.

Aug 1945-Aug 1947

India and Burma: cuttings and publications. Includes: compilations of official and press news on India; texts of speeches by LSA on the Indian political situation, 1946-48; cutting of speech by 1st Lord Mountbatten, former Governor-General of India, on the transfer of power; Commonwealth Relations Office memorandum on European graves in India; copy of the Indian Independence Bill, with policy statement and plan for the transfer of power, as given in Parliament; memoranda by LSA on the transfer of power and a united commonwealth of India, and a printed article on the situation in November 1946; figures for percentages of Muslims, Sikhs and others in Bengal, the Punjab and Pakistan; memorandum by the All India Association on compensations and pension rights for Government servants on the transfer of power; rough timetable of events by LSA on [?] the transfer of power; recruitment regulations and conditions of service for civil appointments in India and Burma; book by Sir Syed Sultan Ahmed [Member in Charge of Information and Broadcasting, Governor-General's Executive Council] on the political situation in India, particularly relating to the treaty with Britain. Also includes correspondence, with correspondents including: 5th Lord Listowel [Minister of State for Colonial Affairs, earlier Lord Ennismore]; 1st Lord Templewood [earlier Samuel Hoare] on European graves in India (2); Philip Noel-Baker, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations, on British graves in India; Ronald Harris, India Office (4); Field Marshal 1st Lord Wavell, Viceroy and Governor-General of India, on security concerns about a visit by LSA to India; George Abell, Private Secretary to the Viceroy, on LSA's visit (2); 1st Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Secretary of State for India, advising against LSA's visit (2), with message from Shri Jawaharlal Nehru [Prime Minister of India] on LSA's unpopularity; Ernest Bevin [Foreign Secretary]; Barrington Hooper.
2 files.

Sep 1945-Sep 1949

Papers connected with the Roger Mission. Correspondence and papers relating to Sir Alexander Roger [Chairman, Ministry of Supply Mission to India] and his work to improve aircraft and armaments production in India, with correspondents including: Sir Alexander Roger; John Moore-Brabazon [Minister of Transport, later 1st Lord Brabazon of Tara] on developing civil aviation in India, and designs for a new type of semi-airborne armoured car (5); [Charles] Richard Fairey, Chairman and Managing Director of The Fairey Aviation Company Limited, on ideas for the armoured car; William Robinson (3). Also includes: notes on armaments firms in India; memoranda on Rogers's mission and machine tool control; note by Fairey on a training aircraft, the Link Trainer; draft memorandum on potential man power and industrial resources among Jews in Palestine; Cabinet memorandum by Moore-Brabazon on air power, particularly for low level attacks on troops.
1 file.

Sep 1939-Jul 1940

Finnish Aid Committee. Papers and correspondence on aid to Finland, including: memorandum from the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs on foreign volunteers in the Finnish Army; minutes of the British Committee for Finland; memoranda by 1st Lord Davies on the purpose of the committee, his visit to Finland and the failures of the Government since 1935; orders of the day by Carl Mannerheim, the Finnish Commander-in-Chief, on the peace treaty with the Soviet Union, and on British volunteers in Finland; official reports of the Finnish Aid Bureau and British Contingent of the International Volunteer Force for Finland; report on the British volunteers. Correspondents include: [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister, on letting the Finns have more guns; Winston Churchill [First Lord of the Admiralty]; Lord Halifax [Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] (2); Lord Davies; Harold Gibson, Director of the Finnish Aid Bureau (7); [Edward] Hugh Dalton [Minister of Economic Warfare] on the Government's refusal to export aluminium to Finland; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Foreign Secretary, later 1st Lord Avon], advising LSA to decline a Finnish honour.
1 file.

Jan 1940-Sep 1941

Cabinet memoranda. Memoranda by LSA on discussions with the United States over trade policy and economic expansion, Imperial Preference and American economic ambitions.
1 file.

Feb 1944-Mar 1944

General memoranda. Memoranda by LSA on Imperial Preference and economic expansionist policy, and post-war reconstruction, and a report on a meeting between Sir John Anderson, Lord Privy Seal, and a deputation from the Association of Education Committees, the Association of Municipal Corporations and the County Council Association, on air raid precautions in schools.
1 file.

Jul 1939-Oct 1940

Article on India in Atlantis Vertag. Speech on India given by LSA in Zurich [Switzerland] and reproduced in Atlantis Vertag.
1 file.

1946

Articles, interviews and notes on India. Texts, prints and notes by LSA on subjects including: the political future of India; India's industrial war effort; notes for speakers on India; India's constitutional future; LSA's view of the Joint Select Committee's report on India (1934).
1 file.

Nov 1934-Oct 1942

India speeches. Texts and draft notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: the new constitution; defending the freedom of the Empire; the expansion of the Viceroy's Executive Council and creation of an All-India National Defence Council; India in the Commonwealth; India and the war; extending the powers of provincial governors and suspending self-government in provinces controlled by the Congress Party; Indian trainee engineers; tribute to Sir Akbar Hydari [late President Hyderabad State Executive Council]; the post-war future of India; post-war trade; the food situation and famine; the Indian Army.
1 file.

Aug 1940–1946

Sir Stafford Cripps's mission. Papers on Sir [Richard] Stafford Cripps's mission to the Indian National Congress, to discuss self-government, including: Government statement and draft declaration; copy of Hansard, with debate on the mission; prints of articles by Sir Alfred Watson, Director of Great Britain and the East.
1 file.

Apr 1942-May 1942

Miscellaneous: India. Includes: press cuttings on LSA; chart by Robert Cary [Principal Private Secretary to LSA] showing the proceedings of the House of Commons on India, 1942-44, with covering letter on factors in the India debate; quotes on LSA's policy, from speeches and articles within and outside Parliament; text of speech by LSA on the world, the commonwealth and India; list of Indian delegates to the Commonwealth Relations Conference (1945); annual report and pamphlet on the war record of the Indian Comforts Fund; notes by LSA (as outgoing Secretary of State for India) on the constitutional problem, economic relations with India and defence; note by Sir Edward Bridges [Secretary to the Cabinet] on changing the hours of the Cabinet because of bombing raids; speech notes by LSA on the economic development of India; correspondence with Alexander Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, on youth and defence training, particularly in India; issue of Indian India.
1 file.

May 1940-Feb 1950

Letters of condolence on election and relinquishing office. Correspondents sympathising with LSA on his departure from the India Office and on the loss of his constituency include: Alan Lennox-Boyd [later 1st Lord Boyd of Merton]; Sir [John] Smedley Crooke; [Edward] Hugh Dalton; Sir Alfred Hennessy; Charles Ferguson-Davie; Sir Howard d'Egville [Secretary of the Empire Parliamentary Association] passing on the Association's vote of thanks to LSA (2); Sir John Walton [Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Burma]; W S Robinson; Sir [David] John Colville, Governor of Bombay, India [later 1st Lord Clydesmuir]; Marjorie Maxse; John Sparrow; Robert Money; Tufton Beamish; Eleanor Rathbone; Kavalam Panikkar, Prime Minister of Bikaner State; Chaim Weizmann; Sir Edward Spears; Jacques Bardoux; Richard Casey, Governor of Bengal; John Hammond; Sir Frank Brown, Honorary Secretary, East India Association; Meriel Talbot; 1st Lord Templewood [earlier Samuel Hoare]; Sir Donald Somervell, Home Secretary, on continuing in their posts until the formation of the new Government; Sir William Jowitt; Sir Herbert Williams, Honorary Secretary, Empire Economic Union; 3rd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer], sympathising with LSA about John Amery; Sir Ronald Storrs; 5th Lord Listowel [earlier Lord Ennismore]; [Leonard] David Gammans; Harold Gibson; Sir Thomas Comyn-Platt; Lionel James; Robert Barrington-Ward, Editor of the Times, commenting on Julian Amery's campaign at Preston [Lancashire]; Mabel, Lady Hartog; Maud, Lady Cunynghame; Edward Wickham; Dame Edith Lyttelton; James Stuart [Chief Whip]; [Samuel] Vyvyan Adams; Geoffrey Winthrop Young; [Arthur] Basil Williams; Sir Waldron Smithers; Sir Clive Baillieu; Walter Elliot; John Bridges; Sir Ernest Shepperson; Sir Roderick Jones; Henry Channon [Chips Channon]; Caroline, Lady Bridgeman; J L Garvin; 1st Lord Iliffe; Sir George Kirkpatrick; Sir Ralph Assheton, Chairman of the Conservative Party [later 1st Lord Clitheroe], on finding new constituencies for Ministers; [Luke] William Teeling; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Max Aitken]; Quintin Hogg [later 2nd Lord Hailsham and Lord Hailsham of Saint Marylebone]; Susan, Lady Tweedsmuir; 1st Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India.
1 file.

Jul 1945-Sep 1945

Letters of congratulations on Companion of Honour. Correspondents congratulating LSA on being made a Companion of Honour, and sympathising on the loss of his constituency include: Clement Attlee, Prime Minister; [John] Aubrey Edgcumbe [former Private Secretary to LSA]; Alfred Bossom; 1st Lord Leathers; 1st Lord Beaverbrook [earlier Sir Max Aitken]; Juliet, Lady Rhys Williams; George Trevelyan; Sir [James] Ronald Charles; 1st Lord Lyle; Stanley Bruce [High Commissioner for Australia in London]; Sir Gilbert Wiles, Adviser to Secretary of State for India, with the other advisers; [Joodha Shamsher], Maharaja of Nepal; General Rob Lockhart; Sir Ernest Oppenheimer; General Sir Claude Auchinleck [Commander-in-Chief, India]; 1st Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India; General Sir Hastings Ismay; Jan Hofmeyr; 5th Lord Limerick [earlier Lord Glentworth]; [Alfred] Chester Beatty; [?] Sir [David] Ronald Milne-Watson; Robert Hudson; Maurice Petherick; Sir [Francis] Reginald Wingate; 2nd Lord Cromer [earlier Lord Errington]; Paul Emrys-Evans; 1st Lord Courtauld-Thomson; General Sir [Ashton] Mosley Mayne [Principal Staff Officer India Office]; Sir David Meek; Sir [Herbert] Edmund Craster; Brendan Bracken; Alfred Chotzner; Louis Gluckstein; Sir Atul Chatterjee; Blanche, Lady Lloyd; Leslie Hore-Belisha; Sir Cecil Kisch; Sir William Rootes; Air Vice-Marshal Ronald Graham, Commandant RAF Staff College; Sir William McLean; Sir Francis Wylie; Sir Adam Maitland; Sir Waldron Smithers; Philip Micklem; Sir Ronald Storrs; 1st Lord McGowan; Sir Geoffrey Peto; Sir Alexander Roger; Sir Edward Spears; Sir Cyril Newall, Governor-General of New Zealand; Sir George Nelson; Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand; Sir Frank Sanderson; John Bridges; Sir Edward Salt; 1st Lord Woolton [earlier Frederick Marquis]; Sir Ernest Canning; Sir Philip Richardson; 2nd Lord Barnby; Sir [William] Archibald Weigall; 1st Lord Davidson; Sir Weldon Dalrymple-Champneys; 19th Lord Sempill [earlier William Forbes-Sempill]; Walter Higgs; 1st Lord Winster; 1st Lord Ramsden; Sir Dougal Malcolm; Sir [William] Ian Fraser; [?] 6th Lord Erskine; Sir Harry Luke; Rupert de la Bere; Sir Girja Bajpai; Joseph Hertz, Chief Rabbi; Charles Mott-Radclyffe; 1st Lord Royden; Sir Hubert Young; 1st Lord Riverdale [earlier Arthur Balfour]; 1st Lord Kemsley [earlier James Berry]; Stella, Lady Reading [later Baroness Swanborough]; Arthur Greenwood; 1st Lord Hacking; Sir Simon Marks; Leslie Hore-Belisha and Cynthia Hore-Belisha; 1st Lord Nuffield [earlier William Morris]; Henry de Satge; Sir Patrick Hannon; 1st Lord Marchwood [earlier Frederick George Penny]; Paul Patrick [Assistant Under-Secretary of State, India Office]; 1st Lord Iliffe; Claude Shepherd, Honorary Secretary, Indian Comforts Fund; Sir Kenneth Kemp, Legal Adviser to Secretary of State for India; John Smyth; Theodore Fielden; Sir [Francis] Edward Villiers; 1st Lord Birdwood; Sir Walford Selby; Neville Finzi; 3rd Lord Selborne [earlier Lord Wolmer]; 1st Lord Perry; 1st Lord Lee of Fareham; Sir Robert Bird.
2 files.

Aug 1945-Sep 1945

Certificate of LSA's appointment as Companion of Honour.
1 file.

Nov 1945

Certificate of LSA's Oxford University Doctorate of Civil Law.
1 file.

Feb 1943

Honours. Correspondence on LSA's recommendations of individuals for honours, with correspondents including: James Stuart [Government Chief Whip] (3); A V Alexander, First Lord of the Admiralty; [Harold] Leslie Boyce; Henry Willink [Minister of Health] (2); Otto May, Chairman of the British Social Hygiene Council (4); Sir Kingsley Wood [Minister of Health, then Secretary of State for Air] (8); Dr T Drummond Shiels; Georgina, Lady Chambers (3); Leonard Darwin; Sir Francis Fremantle (2); Sir Roderick Jones, former Chairman and Managing Director of Reuter's (10); 1st Lord Caldecote [Lord Chief Justice, earlier Thomas Inskip] (2); 1st Lord Catto [Financial Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer]; 2nd Lord Astor; J L Garvin [Editor of the Observer]; Sir Walter Monckton [Director-General of the Ministry of Information]; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister; [William] Arthur Clark [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Dominions]; [Joseph] Saville Garner [Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for the Dominions] (2); 1st Lord Desborough, former head of the Imperial Air [? Fleet] Committee [earlier William Grenfell]; [Robert] Anthony Eden [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, later 1st Lord Avon]; Henry Cleminson, Chamber of Shipping; Sir Edward Harding [Permanent Under-Secretary of State Dominions Office]; Sir Alan Anderson (2); Henry de Satge; Alexander Holm; Walter Elliot [Minister of Health]; Mary, Lady Davis; 7th Lord Stanhope [First Lord of the Admiralty, earlier Lord Mahon]; [Edward] Hugh Dalton [President of the Board of Trade]; Sir James Marchant (2); Oliver Stanley [President of the Board of Trade]; Osmund Cleverly [Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister] (3); Sir Dougal Malcolm (2); Malcolm MacDonald [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs and for the Colonies] (3); 1st Lord Wavell, Viceroy of India; Sir Douglas Hacking, Chairman of the Conservative Party (4); [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister (2); Sir Edmund Davis (3); Trafford Smith, Assistant Private Secretary to Malcolm MacDonald; Lord Halifax [Foreign Secretary, earlier Edward Wood and Lord Irwin] (4); George Gracey, General Secretary of the Save the Children Fund (3); [John] Gilbert Browne; Alan Don [Chaplain and Secretary to the Archbishop of Canterbury]; 1st Lord Lugard.
2 files.

Oct 1936-Nov 1946

Papers on India and the war. Includes: pamphlets on India and the war; notes and typescript on Burma and India, and the Balkans, for LSA's memoirs; War Cabinet memoranda by LSA on India and the Finance Member of the Viceroy's council, Tibet, social and economic policy, subversion in the Indian Army, morale and the war against Japan and extending the Viceroy's powers to co-ordinate political warfare from India.
1 file; Unfit for production..

Aug 1940-Aug 1955

Memoranda, speech notes and printed pamphlets. Subjects include: Imperial Preference and expansionist policy; Britain's economic future; India's position in relation to the Commonwealth; economic discussions with the United States; Anglo-American relations; planning for after the war; overseas trade; government of Indian provinces controlled by the Congress party; India and the war; the Empire and the preferential tariff system; the post-war future of India; commercial policy; the sterling problem. Also includes: memorandum by Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, on the regeneration of India; list of comments on LSA's Indian policy, given within and outside Parliament.
1 file.

Sep 1940-May 1946

Speeches and articles. Includes: extracts from an address by George Drew, Leader of the Conservative Opposition of Ontario [Canada], on the use of the word "Empire", with covering letter from Clement Attlee [Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs], on using the phrase "British Commonwealth and Empire" instead; text of article by LSA for the Empire Industries Association bulletin, "Here we are and here we stand", in defence of the Empire; text of speech by LSA to the Oxford Union, "The British Commonwealth and the World"; text of broadcast by LSA, "Magna Carta, then and now" on freedom within the Empire and Dominion status for India; text of article by LSA for the Empire Producer on the Most Favoured Nation clause.
1 file.

Oct 1935-May 1943

Speeches, articles and memoranda. Reprints and texts of speeches, articles and Cabinet memoranda by LSA on subjects including: the India debate, on the suspension of self-government in provinces controlled by the Congress Party; India's position in relation to the Commonwealth and the world, particularly the United States; India's future; Conservatism and the future; the future of Parliament; the future of the Conservative Party; the intermediate horizon, on future strategy and home policy; Europe and the post-war settlement; planning and internationalism; co-ordination and planning during the war (with comments by 1st Lord Greene and Lieutenant-General Sir Gerald Ellison, on the lack of co-ordination between the Services); Empire policy on air transport; LSA's comments on the interim report of the Interdepartmental Committee on civil aviation; general reconstruction. Also includes: text of the Atlantic Charter; print of a broadcast by the Prime Minister [Winston Churchill] on a four years' plan for Britain after the war; article by Jan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, on the future of the Empire as a partner for the United States; resolution by Godrey Nicholson on Britain's responsibility towards India, passed at the Conservative Party Conference.
2 files.

Jan 1942-Jul 1943

Speeches. Reprints and texts of speeches by LSA on subjects including: the famine in India; the new Indian constitution, Indian Army and plans for reconstruction; the Empire; post-war organic reconstruction and social and economic development in the Commonwealth. Also includes: list of LSA's speeches (from AMEL 1/6/44-6).
1 file.

Mar 1943-Jul 1944

Speeches. Notes for speeches by LSA on subjects including: India and the war; the suspension of self-government in provinces controlled by the Congress Party; India's post-war future; Britain's external trade after the war; regenerating Europe, the Commonwealth and the Empire.
6 files; Fragile..

Sep 1940-May 1945

Photographs of LSA at the Italian Front. Photographs of LSA with Indian Divisions and American troops of the Fifth Army in Italy.
2 files.

Sep 1944