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...bastion of empire the proconsuls gathered. To Singapore, at the request of handsome Lord Louis Mountbatten, Allied "Supremo" for Southeast Asia, hurried Britain's genial Lieut. General Sir Philip Christison, commander in Indonesia; France's dashing Major General Jacques Leclerc, commander in Indo-China; Holland's determined Hubertus J. van Mook, Acting Governor General of the East Indies. Waiting to meet them and assess their problems was Britain's peripatetic Sir Alan Brooke, chief of the Imperial General Staff. While houseboys served cooling drinks, the masters conferred on a new policy toward 94,000,000 rebellious...
...some cases had joined them, posing as Annamites. General Gracey, dismayed by the whole business, talked tough to the Jap commander, Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, then flew down to Singapore with Colonel Cedille, senior French officer at Saigon, for a worried conference with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. But not until strong French forces arrived (under General Jacques Leclerc and Admiral Georges Thierry d'Ar-genlieu) would Terauchi's men be disarmed...
...receiving Japan's formal surrender. The emphasis was on the word "for"; he was not supreme commander "of" Allied forces. The surrender terms which he imposes upon Japan must be executed in Manchuria by the invading Russians, in China by Chinese armies, in Southeast Asia by Admiral Mountbatten's forces, in the Indies by the Dutch and Australians, in the Philippines by MacArthur's own Army divisions, in countless Pacific islands by the U.S. Navy...
...Burma, a Jap army had been routed with 128,000 counted dead; only disease-ridden remnants were left (except on the Tenasserim coast) to surrender to Admiral Mountbatten's Twelfth and Fourteenth Armies and to the Burmese National Army...
...Lord Louis Mountbatten (né Battenberg) arrived from the East and apparently found Stalin prepared to talk about the Pacific war. Mountbatten's Hohenzollern cousins used to enjoy Potsdam...