Item ISMAY 3/7/68 - Detailed notes, Sep-Oct 1947, on Ismay's meetings with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani Governor General Muhammed Ali Jinnah

Records of Ismay's interviews with Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India and Mohamed Ali Jinnah, Governor-General of Pakistan Sep-Oct 1947 including: Note by Ismay on conversations with Jinnah 12-14 Sep 1947, on the political and military situation, particularly the massacres of Moslems and the position of the Zahid Hussein, High Commissioner for Pakistan in India; Ismay's secret codicil to the record of conversations with Jinnah for the eyes of the Governor-General, V Adm Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, on Jinnah's lack of faith in the Indian Government and Ismay's attempts to counter it; Ismay's record of talk with Nehru, 2 Oct 1947, on Pakistan's representation to the British Government and other Dominions, the possible appointment of United Nations Observers in Punjab, the character of the present troubles and the position of the State of Junagadh, reporting that the Government of India was not prepared to allow Junagadh to accede to Pakistan; Ismay's record of conversation with Jinnah, 3 Oct 1947 on the Government of India, the role of V J Patel and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the position of the Sikhs, and the State of the North West Frontier Province; note [? by Ismay] on British officers in India, particularly problems consequent on partition, the closure of Supreme Headquarters, and the employment of British officers in India and Pakistan after partition in the event of war between the two countries. Typescript, 21pp