A private note to thank Morley for his kind remarks about Minto's speech; realises he has made Morley anxious with his remarks about the Press Act, but feels Morley has paid him back by making him anxious about the Amir.
His comments about the Commons being a danger to India were were not an attack on Parliamentary institutions; there seems to be a general agreement that gift of free rations would be preferable to an increase in the pay of native troops; is glad that Morley agrees with him that there should be no...
On Cadet Corps, Minto is proposing to set up a Native regiment in which direct commissions would be given to Cadets or young Indians from 'good Indian families' with the necessary qualifications; initially, the Corps would have British Officers, their places being gradually taken over by Indians;...
Has read the full report of Morley's Indian Debate with interest; wants to know when the Military Supply Department should cease to exist; discusses the question of creating an Education Department in its place; has two candidates, Mukherji and Sinha, to fill this post; notes that Arundel Committ...
Hopes the constitutional movement in Turkey will be allowed to grow without interference from outside and that British sympathy will be with it; has been discussing his proposed regiment with Captain Taylor, temporary Commander at the Cadet Corps (for members of the Indian aristocracy); the chief...
Approves of the sentence passed on Tilak, pointing out that 'people here are afraid for their lives,- not only Europeans but natives too'; encloses loyalist address from Eastern Bengal Landholders Association to Bayley (Governor of East Bengal); there has been an attack on a mission house by a mo...
Thinks in Indian Budget debate in Commons that Percy got the wrong end of the stick regarding the separation of judicial and executive; needs to work on how and when to launch the reforms; has spoken a good deal with Risley and unfortunately does not expect too much from report of his Council Com...
Dunlop Smith is back from England; Minto is getting very anxious about the frontier and is enclosing a secret memorandum summarising the general position and indicating the causes of agitation; discusses relations with Afghanistan; is sending despatch dealing with increase of Indian Army pay; it ...