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From Gandhi's prison in the Aga Khan's shabby villa at Poona, doctors' bulletins went to Viceroy the Viscount Wavell in New Delhi. The Raj had never intended to let the old man die in custody, and thereby become a martyr in the eyes of India's restive masses. The Viceroy, with a nod from London at the proper medical moment, ordered Gandhi's release...
...once India's nationalist and British newspapers saw eye to eye: they were glad that Gandhi had been released, glad that the Viceroy had been wise...
...that time he might have gone back to turbulent, troublesome India as Viceroy. Sage old Field Marshal Jan Christiaan Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa, scotched that idea after Britain's Cabinet had all but agreed on the appointment. Said he: "You can't do without him here...
...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...
Some have their doubts along with their faith. Britain's Field Marshal and India's Viceroy, Lord Wavell, a soldier of generally unsuspected spirit and eloquence, wrote in his forthcoming book about poetry (Other Men's Flowers): "It is a law of life which has yet to be broken that a nation can only earn the right to live soft by being prepared to die hard in defense of its living. . . . May the spirit of adventure and self-sacrifice . . . stay with us after the war, when we undertake ... to refashion a shattered world...