Passage of Ottawa Agreement through Assembly. Pleased at News of Emergency Powers Bill. Conference going well. Federal finance discussions. United action of British delegation. Agrees to honours at end of Conference: also to G. C. B. for Nizam. Anxiety over hospital accommodation at Delhi. Nadir...
Difficulties with Hindus: talks with them. Starting discussions on finance and commercial discrimination. Decision to transfer finance received well. Demand for including Dominions in commercial reciprocity arrangements. Request for nomination to ICS for sons of Sir Abbas Ali Baig and Sir Muhamma...
Against another meeting of Round Table Conference (R.T.C.). Reports of Provincial Governments on communal question. Anxiety about prices in India. Hopes it will not be necessary to continue Service cuts. Propaganda against Ordinances.
Advisability of keeping letters personal and not including too many departmental paragraphs. King's request that influence will be used to prevent Alwar and Patiala involving themselves in wasteful expenditure on visits to England.
Government statement of policy. Hopes to send provisional views on communal decision soon. Suggests that official should visit Gandhi to give him opportunity of co-operation but against negotiations. Difficulties of Jam Sahib's Port claim. Case to be referred to Davidson. Talk to Jam Sahib a...
Arrangements for Bhore to see Bullock regarding air service. Sapru and Jayakar difficult. Talk with Schuster. Chatterjee upset at censure by Govt of India of his work on labour affairs at Geneva, and Hoare asks Viceroy to withdraw despatch.
Good impression made by Indian delegation at Ottawa: Chatterjee and Chetty. Provided Viceroy can get agreement through Indian Legislative Assembly, 'British atmosphere will become much more friendly in the constitutional discussions'. Ratification of agreement regarded 'as one of the most cardina...
Good reception of Viceroy's speech. Desirability of preventing Gandhi becoming centre of demonstrations. Churchill and Rothermere to launch campaign against Government. Ambedkar and depressed classes; danger of varying communal decision. Jam Sahib's propaganda about Paramountcy. Impossible t...