Assembly work starting; Congress in combative mood; Ottawa Agreement, Railway budget and General budget vulnerable points for attack; Murray report: anxious to get matters settled; demonstrations of sorrow in India on death of King; position of Air Officer Commanding in India - Viceroy disagrees ...
Hopes Ottawa Agreement Debate will be favourable; will go ahead with the leave arrangements of the three governors; hopes something will be forthcoming from India for Royal Empire Society; Honours list needs reconsideration as he feels there are too many Star of India decorations compared with In...
Nehru President of Congress; uneasiness in Congress to his attitude towards ministerial appointments; defeat in Assembly by President's casting vote of B. Das' Bill to destroy effect of Criminal Law Amendment Bill and Press Act; thinks result of division is a sign that Congress influence is weake...
Cosidering the question of High Commissionership; welcomes news about Cochrane and agrees to honours proposed for him; distressed about Lancashire and the Murray Report; Viceroy's action on the Inamdars; procedure to be adopted on the change of Governors of Assam, N.W.F.P., Bengal, Bihar and Oris...
Thinks Foreign Office excessively pro-French; Hammond Report published; Budget well received on the whole; Erskine's request for leave and recommendation that Reddi acts during his absence; Viceroy approves; King-Hall's proposal for Institute of International Affairs in India; Imperial Council of...
Foresees difficult times for Lord Linlithgow regarding Indians overseas; thinks Murray Report will be considerably delayed; rumours that Lord Linlithgow is in correspondence with Gandhi; possibility of having to certify Budget; arrangements for Hyde-Gowan's leave; encloses letter from A Majid reg...
Position Air Officer Commanding; thinks Kenya Highlands Order in Council should be reasonably satisfactory to Indians; Erskine's further Land Bill and his private letter of explanation to Viceroy; too late to do anything regarding the Empire Exhibition; speculations as to visit by the King in 193...