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(Mechanical copy of a typed original. Text as A3/8/1. A duplicate of A3/9/1.)

(Official.) The Commissioner of the Northern Division, Bombay, takes a serious view of the situation with regard to civil disobedience, particularly in the Surat District. The Bombay Government have instructed the Commissioner to advise them of any announcement of civil disobedience immediately, to take certain police and military precautions, and to take measures to obtain and record evidence. Council will consider the question on Monday.

(Cutting from a larger document.)

He believes that Gandhi’s supporters will eventually try to work through the Councils, and that this would quickly lead to a party system. This is dependent, however, upon the Government maintaining a firm attitude.

10 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W.1.—Is collecting information for the Prime Minister’s speech at the opening of Parliament, and wishes to have a report from the Secretary of State [Montagu] on the Indian situation.

(Carbon copy of A3/31/1.)

(Text as A3/31/1–2. Leaves from a larger document.)

(Official.) Cites the text of the communiqué issued by the Government of India in response to Gandhi’s manifesto.

(Mechanical copy of typed original.)

10 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W.1.—Asks to see a copy of the telegram that Cabinet instructed Montagu to send to the Viceroy on the subject of law and order in India [A3/34/3].

The Bombay Government will arrest Gandhi on 14 February, and Montagu can announce the arrest that afternoon. The Bombay lawyers have voted against taking action on the manifesto of 4 February or the Bardoli proceedings.

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Treasury Chambers, Whitehall, S.W.1.—Asks Montagu to become his Assistant Private Secretary in the House of Commons.

34 Portland Place, W.1.—Is sorry that what he said in the House should have disturbed Montagu in his travels. [He had apparently referred to criticisms of the India Office made by Montagu before he was made Secretary of State.] The reports Montagu received must have conveyed a different impression from the actual words of his speech. He admits that he was surprised that a man of Montagu’s calibre and experience should have criti-cised the India Office and the Indian Government so heavily, and believes that he would not now suggest that the Secretary of State should be more amenable to the Commons, which is a poor judge of Indian affairs. But he guarded himself against the suggestion that Montagu had any idea of becoming Secretary when he made the speech, and points out that it might be as-sumed from his appointment to that post not long afterwards that he had been sent there to give effect to the views he expressed. It was for this reason that the called the speech into question. Emphasises his desire to remain on friendly terms with Montagu and to co-operate with the Government. He has spent six months trying to assuage the situation in Ireland, but the old feuds have broken out again.

State Government House, Melbourne.—Congratulates him on his appointment to the Treasury, and suggests he may be able to restrain the Chancellor [Lloyd George’s] rhetoric. The news from England is unreliable. He has not yet faced any difficult problems, having been mainly engaged in releasing husbands who have been jailed for failing to maintain their wives, and deciding whether to return a visit by the Admiral in person. He likes the country and its inhabitants, and is shortly to make a tour of the country districts. The party that disapproves of imported governors is less strong in his state than others, and its leaders have not been offensive to him. Asks Montagu to write, if possible.

On J. R. M. Butler's Greek poetry.

Programme with Question for Debate with J. R. M. Butler listed, and menu. Verso signed by participants, including U.S. President Taft.

Topics before the Cambridge University Senate include Fitzwilliam Museum extension, mathematics as a subject in the Natural Sciences Tripos, residence of undergraduates, and a variety of other business. With three fly-sheets concerning the parliamentary election of 1926, and one in favour of retention of the University constituencies dated after 1928-1929.

Asks if he will contribute a volume to the Home University Library series.