Word: mountbatten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second, "vulgar." But even the press last week was offering some comfort to Nehru. A volume titled A Study of Nehru, published by the Times of India, is a birthday compilation of 62 opinions-mostly laudatory-by such authorities as President Tito of Yugoslavia, Eleanor Roosevelt, Lord Mountbatten, Adlai Stevenson, Bertrand Russell and Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg...
...lost touch with the following old boys: A. Eden, G. Burgess, D. Maclean, O. Mosley," and offered condolences to Number 96453. "Betjeman, J. Our great friend, this poet has aspired to write esoteric verse. Unfortunately his work has now received general acclaim . . ." Current members in good standing include Lord Mountbatten, Evelyn Waugh. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, T. S. Eliot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, but not Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell (though he is an Oxford man); Press Lords Kemsley and Astor, but not Beaverbrook (no college). In its correspondence columns...
...Delhi campus to see the prince get a D.Sc. They applauded his jokes ("I regret to say that all my degrees are honorary ones"), cheered wildly when he mentioned the last viceroy who so smoothly presided over the transition to independence, "that great friend of India, my uncle Lord Mountbatten." For all its years as a republic,* the land that struggled so hard for independence is still largely dominated by British ways, has not even bothered to take down the portraits of the British viceroys in the presidential palace. Last week, with Prince Philip around, India seemed positively nostalgic...
Operations Chief to Supreme Allied Commander Southeast Asia, to Viceroy. He might then have had a political career. But there was one post he really coveted. His father, German Prince Louis of Battenberg (the family name, before it was Anglicized to Mountbatten), was forced out in 1914 as Britain's First Sea Lord because of his German origin. One day in 1955 Dickie Mountbatten sat down proudly in his father's old chair at the Admiralty...
...First Sea Lord, Mountbatten pushed ahead with the "Dreadnought" project to build a fleet of British nuclear submarines. On his new appointment, many Britons would agree with London's Spectator, which last week congratulated the Tory government "on ignoring prejudice, political considerations and pressure from the popular press and [its] own party in appointing the best...