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Married. The Hon. Patricia Edwina Victoria Mountbatten, 22, great-great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, elder daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, suave Admiral of the Royal Navy, wartime Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and John Ulick Knatchbull, seventh Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late Governor of Bombay and Bengal; by the Archbishop of Canterbury, in the presence of King George, Queen Elizabeth, the Duchess of Kent, attended by Bridesmaids Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra; in Romsey, Hampshire, England...
Meanwhile, saber-swinging mobs in the Noakhali district of east Bengal, where Moslems outnumber Hindus 5-to-1, burned, looted and massacred on a scale surpassing even the recent Calcutta riots. In eight days an estimated 5,000 were killed, with scores of Hindu girls abducted...
Riots & famine. The new government faced even more pressing problems. In Bengal and Madras provinces, acute food shortages threatened to produce isolated pockets of starvation, while Moslem outbreaks (minor but persistent) and strike-crippled rail system threatened to paralyze transportation. Last week, even the hope' of aid from abroad was deferred: the U.S. shipping strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) had tied up 225,000 tons of wheat; Siam failed to deliver any of its promised rice shipments; Indonesia delivered but a few thousand tons of the promised 700,000 tons of paddy (unmilled rice...
...Direct Action Day," proclaimed by Moslem League Boss Mohamed Ali Jinnah, touched off the disaster. But much blame for what actually happened was shifted to Huseyn Shabad Suhrawardy, head of the Bengal provincial government. Chief Minister Suhrawardy, 52, is a slick, Oxford-educated Moslem who has a bad reputation for black-marketeering in his hunger-ridden province. Instead of warning against violence on "Direct Action Day," Suhrawardy proclaimed a holiday in Bengal, which had the effect of putting his followers on the streets; and he threatened Bengal's secession from India if the Moslems were not placated...
...great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria goddaughter of the Duke of Windsor,'eldest daughter of Viscount Mountbatten, debonair Admiral of the Royal Navy, former Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia; and Norton Cecil Michael Knatchbull, sixth Baron Brabourne, 21, son of the late cricket-playing Governor of Bombay and Bengal; in London...