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Great clouds of dust rolled in with blistering heat from the Rajputana desert and hung over New Delhi this week. Outside the Viceroy's House hundreds of heavily armed British and Indian troops mopped their faces, sputtered and coughed. Inside, around a huge table in the viceregal study, India was being divided...
Just back from London, Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, stoutly urged the Hindu, Moslem and other leaders and princes to accept Britain's plan to keep India united
...little Mahatma, spiritual leader of the Hindu millions, had never been as obdurate in opposition to division. For an apostle of nonviolence, he had used, a few days before, strong language: "Let the whole nation be in flames; we will not concede an inch of Pakistan." But in the Viceroy's office, he listened as Mountbatten talked, scribbled questions on a pad of paper, but uttered no sound. The Mahatma was observing his day of silence...
Agreement to Disunite. Far away from the Jumna's banks, in the quiet atmosphere of London's No. 10 Downing St., a Briton who had striven desperately to save Mother India from vivisection reluctantly prepared the operating table. Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, Viceroy of India, laid before the full British Cabinet his plan for handing over British power to Indians. The knotty question was, what power to which Indians? Every Indian leader except Mohandas Gandhi had agreed that they could not unite, but could not agree how to disunite...
...worked for unity. The Viceroy, Lord Mountbatten (who had just returned from a peace tour in the turbulent North-West Frontier Province), sent two emissaries to London. Their report stressed the danger of dissolution, but contained no suggestion that the British remain in India beyond next year's deadline...