The Papers of Leopold Amery

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.