Word: mountbatten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Admiral Explains. As the outlook brightened, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten finally acknowledged the public dissatisfaction, confusion and concern, took unusual steps to explain. When specific questions were submitted by the A.P., American and British leaders in Ceylon headquarters conferred two days. Then Mountbatten answered the questions and added a statement...
...Mountbatten added these facts...
...blow came three days after Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten moved from inland New Delhi to Kandy on the island of Ceylon off India's southern tip. Under command of salty British Admiral Sir James F. Somerville, the task-force carriers turned into a dawn wind, launched their planes near Sumatra...
...view of what was happening on India's eastern border, New Delhi's communiqués seemed unduly confident, unduly self-assured. By them, Viceroy Sir Archibald Wavell, his deputy, General Sir Claude Auchinleck and his India-Burma-China theater commander, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten almost daily assured the world that there was no cause for alarm. But Washington was worried, anyhow. And so was London...
...Hindustan Times complained that Southeast Asiatic Commander Mountbatten's communiques were obscure. Retorted an official spokesman: "No more obscure than the military situation...