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* The Marquess of Linlithgow to Mr. Amery
Telegram, MSS. EUR. F. 125/23
M OST I MMEDIATE 1 July 1942
P RIVATE A ND P ERSONAL
No. 1968-S. Your private and personal telegram No. 799@ of July 1st. I would prefer ( a ) to issue announcement in paragraph
4 as a separate announcement, and to accompany it with ( b ) a communique in the following terms :—
Begins. His Majesty the King has been pleased to approve the appointment of Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, Sir E. C. Benthall, Sir Jogendra Singh, Sir J. P. Srivastava and Sir Mohammad Usman to the Executive Council of the GovernorGeneral of India.
The following appointments to portfolios have been made by the Governor-General :—
As Member in charge of “Information” Sir C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar in succession to the late Right Hon’ble Sir Akbar Hydari.
As Member in charge of “Civil Defence” Sir J. P. Srivastava in succession to the late Dr. Raghavendra Rao.
As Member for “War Transport” and for “Posts and Air” respectively consequent on the appointment of Sir Andrew Clow, late Member in charge of “Communications”, to be Governor of Assam, Sir E. C. Benthall and Sir Hohammad Usman.
As Member for “Defence” Sir Firoz Khan Noon.
- The Transfer of Power, Vol. II, No. 211, pp. 300-01. @ No. 206