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Admiral Earl Mountbatten, commander in chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, took time off at Naples, adjusted his undersea fishing gear, dived into the Gulf of Salerno for a little subterranean exploration...
...NATO's forces, refused point-blank to take orders from an Italian. The Greeks still resent Italy's jackal invasion of their land in 1940; the sturdy Turks just do not admire Italian soldiering. Britain's Mediterranean fleet, under the command of Vice Admiral Earl Mountbatten, proved equally stuffy about taking orders from Carney himself. It remained proudly aloof from the whole European command setup...
...force (Allied Land Forces Southern Europe) to be commanded by the Italian; the other (Allied Land Forces Southeastern Europe) to be commanded by an American (possible choice: Admiral Carney's able chief of staff, Paratroop Major General James Gavin). Still bobbing becalmed in a command vacuum, however, are Mountbatten's British warships. The U.S. argues that it has more ships in the Mediterranean and more knowledge of carrier tactics; the British say that the Mediterranean has traditionally been their concern, and besides, that the U.S. has already rounded up most of the prize international jobs...
...committed in Indonesia after the islands won their independence from The Netherlands. A burly, moonfaced lone wolf who was born in Istanbul 32 years ago of a Dutch father and Greek mother, he served in World War II with the Australians in North Africa, and as one of Lord Mountbatten's bodyguards in Asia; he became a Moslem, twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. When the Dutch gave up their effort to hold on to Indonesia in 1950, Turk didn't. He organized a private guerrilla army of some 10,000 East Indies Moslems and Dutch deserters, terrorized...
...tradition (her surname) well enough alone. The Queen announced officially "her will and pleasure that she and her children shall be styled and known as the House and Family of Windsor." That put at rest the rumor that Prince Charles might become the first of a new line, the Mountbattens, after his father, who took the name Mountbatten from his mother's family, although he himself properly belongs to the house of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbourg-Glucksbourg...