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Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C357, ff121-125
Title:: Letter from Mountbatten to Listowel
Scope & Content:: Negotiations between Jinnah and Khan of Kalat, and question whether Kalat is an independent State (copy attached of draft comminque agreed in principle by Viceroy, Khan and Jinnah); cessation of Darjeeling; Viceroy's speech to the Chamber of Princes; rumours that Sikhs likely to make trouble afte...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 8 Aug 1947
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C357, ff134-135
Title:: Letter from Mountbatten to Listowel
Scope & Content:: Meeting of Alan Campbell-Johnson (press attache to Viceroy) with Sir William Haley (Director-General, B.B.C.); Krishna Menon instructed to handle India's case on behalf of Indonesia before U.N. Security Council; case of civilian ex-service clerks serving in G.H.Q., India; possible future employme...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1 Aug 1947
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C357, ff136-141
Title:: Letter from Mountbatten to Listowel
Scope & Content:: Burmese decision to leave the Commonwealth; Viceroy's concern that India may also wish to leave; possibility of some looser form of association within the Commonwealth; shocked at Aung-San's death; announcement about the partition of armed forces; Jinnah's offer of Governorship of East Bengal to ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 25 Jul 1947
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C357, ff142
Title:: Letter from Mountbatten to Listowel
Scope & Content:: Encloses copy of letter and enclosures which he has sent directly to the Prime Minister.
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 22 Jul 1947
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C357, ff151-152
Title:: Letter from Mountbatten to Listowel
Scope & Content:: Feels line taken by Prime Minister on Gandhi's proposal regarding non-differentiation between India and Pakistan may not please Gandhi but will be received reasonably well in India; is sorry to hear Burma likely to leave Commonwealth; wonders whether Burma could not go ahead on basis of interim D...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4 Jul 1947
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C357, ff153-156
Title:: Letter from Mountbatten to Listowel
Scope & Content:: Possible appointment of Radcliffe as Chairman of Arbitral Tribunal and Boundary Commissions; welcomes proposal to establish Commonwealth Relations Office; feels change of name will be popular as title 'Dominion' seems to be going out of fashion; possibility that Burma may follow India's lead and ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 27 Jun 1947
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C357, ff157-167
Title:: Letter from Mountbatten to Listowel
Scope & Content:: Thanks Listowel for his good wishes; Muslim League Council has held its first meeting; Nehru and Patel have written to Viceroy about difficulties caused by League's resolution; Gandhi's wish that H.M.G.'s agreement with India and Pakistan should be the same; glad plan has been received favourably...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 12 Jun 1947
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C357, ff168-169
Title:: Letter from Mountbatten to Listowel
Scope & Content:: Jagjivan Ram (Labour Member of Interim Government) leading Indian Delegation to next session of International Labour Conference at Geneva, and he will also be visiting London; question of appeals to Privy Council after transfer of power; Colville as acting Viceroy and Ramamurty as acting Governor...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 5 Jun 1947
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C357, ff170-171
Title:: Letter from Mountbatten to Listowel
Scope & Content:: International Wheat Conference; Sir G S Bajpai (Indian Agent-General in Washington) to be Principal Secretary of newly amalgamated External Affairs and Commonwealth Relations Departments; High Commissioner for India in London to come under External Affairs Department; has received Prime Minister'...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 15 May 1947
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Mss Eur C357, ff173-176
Title:: Letter from Colville to Listowel
Scope & Content:: Future careers for police officers; line taken by Indian representatives at e Wheat Conference; serious position in Punjab and Jenkins' request for additional brigade and Colville's reply to him; letters to Colville from Nehru and Patel expressing concern at situation in Lahore and suggesting mar...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 26 May 1947
Extent:: 1 item

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