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Office of Cabinet Delegation, The Viceroy’s House, New Delhi.—Sends a loving greeting for the 26th. Reports briefly on the mission and the political situation. He has ordered an aeroplane for 10 June, but may not be able to leave then.
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Office of Cabinet Delegation, The Viceroy’s House, New Delhi
May 26. 46
Oh My Dear.
May 26 Sunday. Our May 26. I love you. You are my very darling. You are I am sure thinking of me as I am of you.
Our political barometer continues to go up & down. At the present moment after a severe depression it has appreciably risen.
Cripps is in hospital but is improving & hopes to be out in a few days & back at work a few days later. Alexander has gone off to the South on an Admiralty mission {1}. Jinnah is still at Simla & his Muslim League doesnt meet till June 3. The Congress have adjourned & departed.
So I & the Viceroy are left alone. I think there will be plenty to do & time to get some rest. I played Alexander at billiards last night[,] gave him 100 in 250 & beat him by 24.
I have told them to have an aeroplane standing by by June 10 but I am afraid tht† doesnt mean I shall get off by then. Still the time is coming when I shall have to say to the parties not “tht my patience is exhausted” but “time Gentlemen please”. It may be the only way to get them to decide anything. See the amusing extract from a pro-Congres† paper. And perhaps I shall add “We are going now forward with summoning the Constituent Assembly” & see what happens.
Darling once more
All my love
Boy
Please go on writing to me until I definitely start for home.
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{1} He had gone to Ceylon to inspect the fleet. See Transfer of Power, vol. vii, no. 386.
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- Lawrence, Emmeline Pethick- (1867–1954), suffragette, wife of the 1st Baron Pethick-Lawrence (Subject)
- Alexander, Albert Victor (1885–1965), 1st Earl Alexander of Hillsborough, politician and co-operator (Subject)
- Jinnah, Mohamed Ali (1876–1948), creator of Pakistan (Subject)
- Cripps, Sir Richard Stafford (1889–1952), knight, politician and lawyer (Subject)