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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1951.
MOUNTBATTEN
-and the challenge to his charm
T
by JOHN JUNOR
dash - bult> provide
nothing more might ever hase been heard fr But he de not content hansell
was Noel Coward mee who summed up for the smart set, "The position having become im- possible, he said, they have to vall on Dickie."
The "plan," as Mr Coward terized 1, was Indha
And h Mountbatt
new ly
Dkie was add the 173107 then RIVE
884
ta
Tawny in 15 remths an Empire it
had taken 296 years to
He suveverlet in 145 cars
Lak
A tatter the Mountbatten Ingetal
Is youth Nod was l
Foto Mount sitkort tease le
batter sulsens bad fau throwel hee and tast
had
to las 17 gan, glittering your. he had so tastes real failure
1: Burma A his wartime attempt to tanha an airfield of see it than udale the Atlantic
Fire?
He kept a day-to-day diary t the 15 months he spent in cl and
W
Mountbatten. And the Published
unce. The "MISSION WITH MOUNT PATTEN."
deument '
outstanding importance
TS
Dreary
TS lane he hen the woofing The wrong - dall A endural fav alle s non-existent Canmobell-faisant
as
apou Lord
Misanthalten
e new boy at sol right ok Apon the brasa: ame Rugges
CHOR
And therein curiously enough. lies the value of the book. Fo at is adverts that the father e more than the mirror of his muster
Who! Mountbatten thought yesterday. Campbell-
BUT dia as Sundhed his writes today
gutan than either
was a place where unters arud Fasting!
Frashri Mastein, passings
a lan
WUM
So when Selle tent
Hindu arul his
alt en- mag tart fe which would neve: the
Paul Meumid teri
surver | ludia M
and Sir
Th
Alle Stafford 50. thought They pleaded with to accept the joi They virtuall allowed
כון?
nem his own cu ditions.
The King throught To quote Lord Mountbatten's wonis, us Majesty On Live ider of his cousin becoming Viceroy.
about W hat Mountbatten 1:1-
self"
He examined the possibility of personal failure and loss of face
He recalled a
may be presumed thai Campbell-Johnson KIYOS alible towards the events
ant personalities of i India in 1947 he is expressimot his www views.
145 DAYS
Lord Monthalten's
Thus, for the first time. we are given
a clear Insight into the
emotions
Britain's
VAPTION and
اور
147
Montert is in New Da
March 22
Partition plan sgrend In Commen
July 16
Ju new State of Inca' first Govering - General
Midnight, Aug. 14
In the next six weeką Mr. Churchill estimated the casualties in fight- ine beteen Hindus and Moslems as half o multion
FLEVET
1917
The exact Agure of those who died
be known, but Alan Campbell John- 800 says the six-cek total than only about half this "
warning whork
5
ite seegmen
The NOW
time schedule was a nuisance.
!
A man at the Viceroy's elbow. prompts 3 awkward questions
"They might have told me they were going to build an A-bomb plant opposite before
they let me buy my own house."
London Express Service
GUNS AND BUTTER
DREAM
t-11fii«lwjful«lø41#{*;b
By O. H.
A
NOW
BRANDON
ENDS
seret calculations are reliable the long-range plans will also be trimmed
A bombsight in the last war cost £400. The new electronic bomo amer comes to £20,000 and naturally, takes propar- 1:onately longer to manufac- ture
18 the
and Jet-fighter Debter-bomber, the most impor- tant plane for the NATO de- fe ser forces, that are slow on Whatever the assembly line romes off the line is still sent to Korea.
All this sounds encouraging, but if NATO is going to rely on tactical atomic weapons for
Ist defence, more aeroplane will be needed. All other ways the atomic wea- of delivery of pons are still in the
A truce in Korea will speed expert-
deliveries for Europe. All inental stage. The aeroplane.
readjustments not ams these new
the must ches-
of
But aeropiane production
bottleneck the most stubborn
up
131
only indicate the recognition of the need for criteria by all concerned,
more
selective
but also a more realistic approach by the military towards their own requirements.
1
WASHINGTON, turers will still be able to Whole-
MERICANS, to their produce about 1,000,000 Indian problem as
great surprise, are cars, against 1,600,000 per If it were
u naval
A sh
learning that quarter in 1950. Refrigera operation. had to be docked on
the United States tor and washing-machine therefore, remains
to come 1:00 He was the time.
rearmurent programme is makers are still get-
tive carrie: man to do it. Any-
They have ting 50 percent of the one who interiered lagging badly.
confident steel and 35 percent learned to be so with his tight. personally-imposed in the production capacity copper and aluminium they The prospects of speeding
of America's gigantic in obtained before the Korean aircraft production here aro dustries that they shuke war started, and the same not too good. General Norstead, their heads incredulously applies to radio-television who commands the
forces
Europe, was scheduled to
air have right They are forgetting that
groups by November of this the United States Govern-
The US year. So far he has only four. ment is attempting some-
fence, come to realise that his Exact aircraft production military budget must not strain MEANWHILE, the Budget thing which even such
deficit by the end of the figures are not available here, the US economy
where inflation becomes but the monthly rate last sum- rich country cannot accom- plish without experiencing fiscal year will be approxi-
micr was said to have bee controllable setbacks.
mately 7.5 billion dollars, 1,000 planes. No doubt, in the and there is no prospect of next few months, this at Congress
IN
M: Jinna h. Presitlent <if the with the thorough- Mostem League, was such a man. nozes Jinnah J Hatred ness of a fishmonger leting a
Not once through the book flounder.
a kum word spoken of him
Jinnah was frigid. Jinnah was refused to Jinnah haughty succumb to the personal charn Jinnat sisted upon putting the safety and security of his own people before the need for a swift and tidy settlement which could be Rance disregarded the parcelled up with glory.
Jinnah
irritating Wis an advice. A simple sense of duty impelled him to get to Rangoon felow.
he himself had given to Sur Jlubert Rance when Rance, in
1946, August
appoutte Governor of Rangoen.
Don't arrive on His warning? the spot until the trouble is at its very worst. Then they can't blame you for anything.
But
as quickly as he
could. So
of Lord Mountbatten
So frank
+
rearms-
producers.
al
in
voting higher will rise rapidly.
taxes. The Government has been given greater powers to freeze prices and profits,
American
figure
Just as Gen. Eisenhower has come to understand the limita- 11ons of
economic Europe's capacities in relation to rearin-
has ament.
Mr Loveti, Secretary for
别
De-
to a
point
un-
As was indicated in a recent speech by General Bradley, the cut Pentagon has decided to heavily on conventional arms in the next year, and will con- centrate on investing the bulk and
The United States, the outset of the ment programine, decided to have both guns and but-
be of its funds into aircraft ter. Civilian production was but there are enough loop- WHEN the Korean war to be curtailed as little as holes to undermine their Industry
gan the American aircraft atomic weapon development instead of arriving while the big OW. NEHRU was different.
employed 250,000 This gigantic process of read- possible and defence pro- effectiveness. Rangoon strike was at its height N
N Here was
workers. Now employment has justment is healthy and not dis- delightfully sociable tea-drinking fellow who duction was to concentrate,
risen to 600,000 Comparisons couraging, for only walked backwards in the first place, on
Again, workers are with figures in the last war are could have taught our planners occasionally
futile. Today's planes panding production lines, ting restive and are unjustly to strengthen his calf muscles.
that complicated the Nehru was fully conscious et rather than turning out big paring for another, for having need
much more time to bulld. the honour paid to India by the
round for higher arrival
and quantities of war materials sixth, Mountbatten, uf
wages. Clearly, inflation has fully aware too of Mountbatten's immediately.
not been halted yet. magnificence.
he did so a few days before it
began
As a result he was blamed
incur it.
tu
Could the same thing happen
Mountbatten in India Mountbatten decided the risk of his being made a scapegoat was not excessive.
So he said "Yes" to Mr Attlee and began assembling a persona! staff to take to Delhi.
ONE
First ever
of the first members of the staff to be appointed was a young man who, by his writ- ing, had helped to boost Mount- batten during his wartime com mand of SEAC-Alan Campbell Johnson,
Campbell-Johnson's new job was to repeat the procedure in
His officiai India.
Litle was
be to act as
After one of his first inter- views with the
Viceroy it was
Nehru who said, "Now I know What
a man
ex-
get- pre-
With the rearmament pro-
ed for American divisions to Europe.
experience
troited.
are so these lessons It also
take that rearmament can be they
proves
con-
Taikoo
icing makes the cake
they mean when they THE idea to have both gramme behind schedule, it was not easy for the U.S. guns and butter seem- speak of your charm being so! dangerous!"
ed, certainly in the begiu- joint chiefs of staff to agree to General Eisenhower's Could anything be wrong with ning, the most palatable
who possessed such admirable frankness? Campbeli- way of selling rearmament new plan, to divert military to the American public. But equipment already earmark- once the U.S. began to syphon vast quantities of raw materials out of the
The risk involved is that world markets, it caused while American troops will, havoc everywhere.
for some time longer, re- At the same time Con- main under-equipped, the gress was more easily con- new equipment going vinced
was
Johnson evidently thinks Dot. His attachment to Nehru be- comes second only to his adula- tion for Mountbatten.
So Nehru, the man
who Kashmir and grabbed Mosłem who even now still holds it by force, is presented as a happy, peace-loving humanitarian..
Master?
COME awkward questions are
Press Attache. His actual func-left in the reader's mind. tion seemed to
DID MOUNTBATTEN charm publicity-provider for Mount-
Nehru or was it the other way around?
batten.
moment's notice a
WAS
to
that rearmament Europe could fall into the necessary than high hands of the Russians if taxation, which had to be they attacked tomorrow. decided on simultaneously, But In the last few
to avoid inflation.
months there has been a re-
-reason:
This was the first time that DID NEHRU, through as- such an appointment had ever siduous flattery, succeed in get- In the face of these de- volution in military think- been made or ever
The thought ting Mountbatten to do every-velopments, officials here ing here. To our friends and Patrons in Hong-
necessary, but Campbell-Johnson
to tactical atomic weapons. It kong, others, in far away places and was an expert à maliitude of reverie WT BARU who hustled of guns and butter could experts, that
proved proficient in his job. Ele thing he wanted him to do while have reluctantly come
making it appear that just the д
recognise that their dream means, according to the was happening?
the West's especially, to those in the Armed Forces, we graph and publicise the Viceroy the Kashmir problem could be wide awake to the disloca few troops if the latter are fissh-bulb cameramen to photo on the scuttle from India before not go on. Now they are defences can be held with at every official and unofficial fairly settled? Was he the real tions which are threaten really fully equipped. extend the season's good wishes. This old function.
architect of abdication—and Lord
ing the West's entire re- He organked broadcasts and Mountbatten just the tool? greeting has never been excelled, so to all
operations by newsreel camera from, the books that
The uneasy feeling emerges armament effort:
If Campbell- mon. He nursed newspapers so Jahtison' was a mirror, then po Nevertheless, it will not of you, "A Merry Xmas and A Happy Year."
GINGLE'S ANNEXE
70. NATHAN ROAD, KOWLO
New
MPACTICAL: atomic weapons
that at all timer Tadia and, the in a larger scale was Mount beeney for the United Twit force the attacker to where the Viceroy was and what balten. And the real master was States Government to cut disperse and thus Russia's most
the astute, crafty, oleaginous heavily into the butter, formidable weapon, masis
Campbell-Johnsor. Foor
Fe
ELATM
whole world would know exactly
She was doing.
Ile looked after Lady Mount
There is an election next eault, will be blunted. For this reason Eleonhower' 'wants 80 and no naively year and no party in power battle-worthy divisionis batten's publicity too. He saw has tried vo | to it that when she visited the in his book, to build up Lord wants,atr such a time, to wks possible,
refuged camps her every step Mountbatten la hot his fault make life really susters. This will probably delay thi wak noted and recorded that he leaves ble marter Thus, in the fret quarter brainal fond of 30 diving by s
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