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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

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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

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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

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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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