Financial crisis. Reasons for Ordinance. Viceroy's surprise that S/S should communicate direct with Currency officers in India. Gandhi receiving excessive publicity in England. Representations at R.T.C. of aborigines of Bihar and Orissa.
Position in Bengal disquieting. British troops' steadying effect in Kashmir; necessity of appointing Glancy Committee. Encloses note by Bhore on civil aviation. Unwise to give more C.S.I.s Question of G.C.V.O. for P.M. of Nepal. Appreciation of situation. Gratitude for S/S's support.
Suggests more responsibility at Centre. Improvement in Kashmir. Welcomes idea of Anderson as Governor of Bengal. Presses for early announcement. Appt. of Sifton and Keane. Resignation of Lambert. Assembly spirit friendly: one defeat on duty on machinery. General conditions improving. Satisfact...
Changes in Executive Council. Possibilities regarding deportation to Andamans of revolutionaries. Feeling in N.W.F.P. against repressive measures. Possibility of Moslems boycotting Committees. Length of Conspiracy Trials. Viceroy urges start of new political party combining all interests. Opening...
Appreciation of situation. Consultative Committee work still held up by difficulties with Moslems. Encloses statement as to Treaty position of Princes in future. Belief that Princes are more likely to enter Federation if they know that, failing All-India Federation, there will be British Indian ...
Minorities statement. Moslems still very unsettled. Hopes S/S will not correspond with Birla too much. Princes nearing agreement. 4. Urges speed in reforms. Case of Paton. Suggests question in Commons as to what is being done regarding Reforms. Undesirability of appointing T.P. Sinha to Branch...
Satisfactory conclusion of Chamber of Princes' meeting. Hopes P.M. will come to decision on communal question. Thinks H.M.G. must take responsibility for Bill. Question of Congressmen in prison when General Election for Provinces takes place. Viceroy's difficulties over paramountcy and Ceremon...
Princes unanimously committed to Federation. Suggests Grigg and Barton as Governor of Burma. P.M.'s anxiety about Ordinances. Viceroy thinks Ordinances must stand until civil disobedience ceases. Meteorological provision between Rangoon and Victoria Point.