10 Downing Street, Whitehall.—The Prime Minister (Churchill) proposes to re-appoint the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee, and hopes that Pethick-Lawrence will consent to be a member.
Expresses his opposition to the actions of the British Government in the Middle East. Has advised Nehru that he values the presence of India in the Commonwealth and hopes that Menon will support this view.
(Headed ‘Rough draft of what I have written to Krishna Menon in New York.’)
(Typed transcript of 5/99b.)
(Carbon copy of 5/99c.)
This collection contains, firstly, the surviving contents of the Pethick-Lawrences’ correspondence files, including letters from, and copies of letters to, a wide range of politicians and public figures. It also contains papers relating to the Lawrence family and the early life of F. W. Lawrence; articles and scripts of talks by Lord Pethick-Lawrence; correspondence between the Pethick-Lawrences themselves; papers of Lady Constance Lytton; papers relating to the separation of the Pethick-Lawrences from the Women’s Social and Political Union; and papers relating to prison conditions. The collection includes particularly notable material on the subjects of Indian independence, the suffrage movement, and other aspects of social reform.
Lawrence, Frederick William Pethick- (1871-1961), 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence, politician