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- 1942 Mar - Jun (Creation)
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1 file
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Papers on the possibility of sending Tom Wintringham to set up a Home Guard in India including report by Wintringham 'Guerrilla warfare in India', 31 Mar 1942, sent to Gen Robert Lockhart of the India Office; correspondence on the subject with Lockhart, Sir Richard Stafford Cripps, Leader of the House of Commons, Indian organisations and Lt Gen Sir Ronald Forbes Adam Adjutant General to the Forces; letters of introduction of Wintringham to the Maharajahs of Jaipur and Jodhpur from the Earl of Jersey; draft letter from Wintringham to The Times on an Indian Home Guard, 7 Apr 1942; BBC broadcast by Wintringham, 'Indian talks: starting a Home Guard', 3 Jun 1942; broadcast for BBC Hindustani Service by Wintringham, 'Guerrilla warfare', 3 Jun 1942; letter from Wintringham to the American ambassador John Gilbert Winant on an Indian Home Guard, 26 May 1942 and press cuttings 'Congress in dilemma says Nehru', in the Star , 1 Jun [1942] and 'Nehru calls millions to fight', in Reynolds , 7 Jun [1942]. 1 file