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File has caused both favorable reviews and a wave of wrath and scorn. As a self-appointed defender of the British royal family. Lord Mountbatten has denounced the authors' conclusions about an aborted British rescue plot. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has stonewalled on the question of whether U.S. archives also contain documents regarding American complicity in a rescue plot. The authors do not claim that their conclusions are complete. But they are continuing to dig-and the new findings, especially in the U.S. archives, may be even more sensational than the intriguing material they have already unearthed. David...
...stroke of midnight on Aug. 14, 1947, an age ended. After an occupation of 347 years, the British gave India back to the Indians. Like every detail of that massive transition, the moment chosen for India's deliverance was an awkward compromise. Lord Louis Mountbatten, the English viceroy, had intended to make his country's exit on Aug. 15, the second anniversary of Japan's surrender in the Pacific. Legions of India's astrologers howled; every stellar influence on that date spelled catastrophe. The ceremony was advanced twelve hours. The stars were not fooled...
Half-Naked Fakir. The situation was unimaginably complex-and utterly hopeless. Freedom at Midnight focuses on the four men who plunge ahead anyway, haggling out the new terms under which one-fifth of the world's population will live. Perhaps because Mountbatten is one of their primary sources, Collins and Lapierre cast him in heroic mold. The great-grandson of Queen Victoria faces his task with a stiff upper lip and a trembling lower one; he relishes the pomp of the viceroy's office while struggling to give it away...
...save all lives. Even before his assassination, the hacking out of West and East Pakistan leads to appalling religious butchery. The strain on both new nations is nearly fa tal. Within months of its creation, Pak istan's checks are bouncing. Shaken by his awesome difficulties, Nehru asks Mountbatten to take secret control of the country once again. The irony is crushing: the last English viceroy also has to serve as India's closet king...
...Reith saw it, the vagaries of history as well as the stupidities of men seemed bent on frustrating him. Hoping that he would be appointed Viceroy of India so that he could demonstrate his ability to run something really big, Reith was crestfallen when in 1947 Lord Mountbatten was sent to manage Britain's evacuation of India: "So that is the job I most wanted on earth gone for good...