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Churchill/AMEL 1/6 contains:
1 House of Commons speeches
2 Speeches and memoranda
3 Articles on post-war settlement
4 Peace Aims: federation and reconstruction
5 War ideas: correspondence
6 Letters of congratulation on LSA's appointment as Secretary of State for India
7 Letters of resignation of directorships
8 Letters of congratulation on Yugoslav broadcast
9 LSA's War Cabinet papers
10 India Office and War Cabinet papers
11 LSA's memoranda to the War Cabinet
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The Papers of Leopold Amery

Title Letters of congratulation on LSA's appointment as Secretary of State for India
Reference AMEL 1/6/6
(former reference: Box 160)
Covering Dates May 1940-Jun 1940
Extent and Medium 1 file
Content and context

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].

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