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Clement Attlee had another paper to read. There would be a new Viceroy in India for the 15-month period of Britain's withdrawal. Bluntly dismissed (but rewarded with an earldom) was taciturn Field Marshal Viscount Wavell of Cyrenaica and Winchester, the one-eyed soldier who did not always see eye-to-eye with his Labor Government bosses in London, or with Indian leaders. In his place would be handsome, 46-year-old "Dickie" Mountbatten (Rear Admiral Viscount Mountbatten of Burma), second cousin of King George...
Again & again-seven times altogether -Churchill charged to the attack amidst growing hubbub. "Surely," he cried, bringing up his left arm as his voice rose, "the right honorable gentleman did not wake up one morning and say, 'Oh, let us get another Viceroy!' It must have some purpose or reason behind it." He scowled across at Attlee, then slowly wheeled round like a battleship's gun turret and returned to his seat...
Bearing an honorary degree presented by Viceroy Archibald Wavell and praising the interest in scientific matters shown by men and women of India, Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, returned to Cambridge Thursday morning from a month-long tour of Indian universities and observatories...
Sardar Balder Singh. In the plane's third row sat Viscount Wavell, Viceroy of India. For three years he had been trying to bring Nehru and Jinnah into agreement, now, with the peace of India hanging by a thread, they were a yard apart in space, politically as remote as ever...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah did his best last week to kill the British long-term plan for Indian independence. When Viceroy Lord Wavell refused to postpone convocation of the Constituent Assembly scheduled for Dec. 9, Jinnah announced that Moslem League delegates would not attend. The Moslem League newspaper Dawn quickly ran an obituary of the British plan: "Let what is dead be buried lest it spread pestilence." Lord Wavell and interim Premier Nehru's Congress Party were ready to try to write a constitution without Jinnah...