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Last week, Chief Minister K. C. Reddi of Mysore escorted Lord Mountbatten, India's Governor General, and Lady Mountbatten into the inner temple of Sri Ranganadha (Vishnu) near Seringapatam. When they left, Priest Archaka closed the inner precincts and began cleaning up after the Mountbattens. He washed down the black stone idol with water and then with milk, chanted prayers in the oldtime purification ceremony. Irritated, the Mysore government ordered the conservative Archaka to suspend the ceremony and reopen the temple. The Governor General was thus implicitly raised at least to the new level of the Untouchables...
Well-to-do Lady Mountbatten, for example, who gets about $240,000 a year from investments totaling $8 million, pays $220,000 in income tax. This year she will pay an additional $120,000 capital contribution. That looked very much like a capital levy of $100,000. Cripps did not call it that. "The contribution," he said, "is considered to be a charge on capital, and in many cases there will, in fact, be no other way of paying it." The tax will hit about 125,000 investors, bring in more than $400,000,000 (balancing an equal amount...
...North African expedition. If the acid of his insecure and suspicious personality had been poured over U.S.-British relations, calamity might have come more dramatically. Stilwell's contempt was not confined to the Chinese government. In his diary and letters he sneered at the British, at Washington, at Mountbatten and at Chennault, who had been in China four years before Stilwell got there...
...projects required immense capital outlay as well as unlimited confidence in Geoffrey Pyke, which is why most of them remained in the idea stage until he joined Lord Mountbatten's Combined Operations staff during the war. In that atmosphere of frenzied immediacy, amid the flinging about of millions of pounds and dollars, Geoffrey Pyke had his innings...
...Ramdas set fire to the ghi-soaked wood with the charcoal he had carried, smoldering, all the way from Birla House. Nehru, Patel, Governor General Earl Mountbatten and his Lady threw last rose petals on the pyre as the white smoke of sweet-smelling sandalwood rose against the scarlet evening sun. From nearly a million throats came the chant, half in mourning, half in triumph: "Mahatma Gandhi amar ho gae!"-"Mahatma Gandhi has become immortal...