Bombay quieter. Congress attempts to destroy business prosperity. Measures taken in N.W.F. Civil Disobedience conditions satisfactory. Necessity for safeguards. Encloses letter from Schuster as to financial prospects of Provincial Governments. Encloses letter to Governors regarding Franchise Re...
Pleasure at decision on one-Bill programme. Promises views on communal question. Indebtedness in India. G/I considering question. Answers questions as to meteorological provision between Rangoon and Victoria Point. Difficulty of general election in Bengal. Asks for extension of leave for Griffi...
Will agree to any nominee for Burma Governorship. Unnecessary to continue Consultative Committee. Hoping for meeting of Princes and agreement over Federation. Agreement that letters to S/S should be of personal nature. Asks as to possibilities of employment in England for Sir Ross Barker. Govt....
Leakage as to reforms questions. Sapru's complaints. Method of discussing financial safeguards. Viceroy to see Cutch and arrange for Princes' meeting. Encloses letter from Kapurthala about King's Statue. Pay of new D.G. of Posts and Telegraphs.
Talk with Sapru and Jayakar. Jayakar's garbled version of what occurred. Encloses letter from Innes regarding Burma Governorship. Suggests King seeing Porbandar. Difficulties with Imperial Airways. Promises despatch on future organisation of Army. Premchand's desire for Baronetcy. Renewal of Or...
Sapur and Jayakar leave Consultative Committee. Difficult political situation in India after communal decision. De Montmerency's illness. Disappointment at Jam Sahib's case not going before Tribunal.
Viceroy's desire to give up Consultative Committee and send representatives to London for discussions. To go into propaganda question. Talks with Anderson.
Still urges that Consultative Committee should cease. Agrees to Purshotamdas and Birla going to London to discuss financial safeguards. Anderson changes his mind over communal question. East India Tramways Co. Kapurthala's desire for G.C.V.O. Statue of King. Expresses pleasure at way Porbandar's...