[1][2] In a letter to the editor of The Times in March 1931, Brown contradicted the claim made by Winston Churchill that the Gandhi–Irwin Pact had conceded all the Congress Party's demands.
[1] At the beginning of the 1920s, Brown was one of the group of specialist advisers on India around Edwin Montagu, with Thomas Jewell Bennett, Valentine Chirol, Evan Cotton, James Lovat-Fraser and C. P.
[6] He was one of the press figures lobbied at the time of the 1923 Imperial Conference by Tej Bahadur Sapru, with Stanley Reed and A. P. Penman of Reuters.
[11] Papers of Brown went to the India Office Library, including extensive correspondence with Gilbert Laithwaite, secretary to Viceroy Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow.
[12][13] In 1945 Frank Anthony, opposed to the Indian independence movement, recruited Brown and Stanley Reed for the London committee of the All India Anglo-Indian Association.
The other members were Harry Graham Haig as President, Hailey, the churchmen Eyre Chatterton and Philip Loyd, Woodrow Wyatt MP, Geoffrey Rothe Clarke, the Anglo-Indian Eric Pound of India House, and Mary Tyrwhitt-Drake.