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Clement Attlee was impressed by Ismay too, and sent him to India as Viceroy Mountbatten's chief of staff in the ticklish days when Britain handed over power to the Indians...
Died. Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, 64, Viceroy of India for a record 6½ years (1936-43); of coronary thrombosis while shooting game on his estate near South Queensferry, Scotland. An old-fashioned peer who believed that the aristocracy has responsibilities as well as privileges, Lord Linlithgow distinguished himself as a soldier (commander of a Royal Scots battalion in World War I), politician (deputy chairman of Scotland's Conservative Party), businessman (chairman of Midland Bank) and educator (Chancellor of Edinburgh University). As Viceroy of India, he faced with frosty courage his double troubles of constitutional...
...confused with Emir Feisal, viceroy of Hejaz, second son of King Ibn Saud...
...contested by India and Pakistan, where he conferred with local government leaders and rejected as "extraordinarily objectionable" a U.S.-British move for U.N. arbitration of the Kashmir dispute (TIME, March 12). Nehru was accompanied by his daughter Indira, and by Countess Mountbatten, wife of India's last British viceroy...
Died. Field Marshal Earl Wavell, 67, Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, onetime (1943-47) Viceroy of India, author (Allenby: A Study in Greatness), poet, historian and scholar; after an abdominal operation; in London. Taciturn, one-eyed Field Marshal Wavell mastered desert fighting under the late great Field Marshal Viscount Allenby, horse-cavalry victor of the 1917-18 Palestine campaign; as commander in chief in the Middle East, Wavell smashed Graziani's Italian army during the 1940 North African campaign; after suffering major reverses in Greece and Crete, he was transferred to India (1941), where he organized the defense...