Correspondence between C.I.G.S. and Chetwode; hopes there will be no need to draw on India for personnel and equipment for use in Abyssinia; request for increase in number of knighthoods; question of peerage for Chetwode; thinks Congress are working hard to get Gandhi to lead them again but doubt...
Country peaceful at the moment; Chetwode back from frontier and pleased with result of jirga; road progressing well; Congress postpones decision regarding new Provincial Councils until February.
Little cause for anxiety at the moment; Congress will probably pull themselves together before elections; moderate elements becoming more confident; spasmodic efforts to organise but no team work; question of Parliamentary approval for Criminal Law Amendment Bill; Zanzibar Land Alienation Decree;...
Glad that Lord Zetland is still Secretary of State; hopes to be able to do something for Lancashire in next budget; wish of Sir Shadi Lal (Member, Judicial Committee of Privy Council) to be considered for Chairmanship of Federal Court; if Princes are offered special political or financial adjustm...
On tour to Dholpur, Lucknow and Darbhanga; impressed with restoration work done by Maharaja of Darbhanga following Bihar earthquake; question of creation of new post of Political Adviser; proposal that Brabourne, Hyde-Gowan and Erskine should take leave in 1936 - suggests Lord Linlithgow should b...
Views on League of Nations and Abyssinia; railways weak side of budgetary position; Grigg in favour of raising money for Quetta out of revenue; question of successor to Shadi Lal if he retires; Criminal Law Amendment Act; memorial tablet for Thompson; mourning period complications; changed atmosp...