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...blow came three days after Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten moved from inland New Delhi to Kandy on the island of Ceylon off India's southern tip. Under command of salty British Admiral Sir James F. Somerville, the task-force carriers turned into a dawn wind, launched their planes near Sumatra...
...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...
...Admiral Mountbatten could not laugh at the threat. He had to hustle...
...General Sir Claude Auchin-leck told the Indian Parliament that the Japs were attacking in considerable strength. Same day Admiral Mountbatten said the attackers were only "raiding parties." Pundits everywhere were stumped. Said one U.S. radio commentator: "This looks serious." A columnist: "Professional military men . . . are not fretting over some gains in those border mountains." Republican Congresswoman Jessie Sumner (who wants to abandon the war in Europe, make MacArthur supreme anti-Japanese commander) said "military authorities" had told her that many U.S. troops had no guns to fight the Japs at Imphal (where there are no U.S. troops...
...Hindustan Times complained that Southeast Asiatic Commander Mountbatten's communiques were obscure. Retorted an official spokesman: "No more obscure than the military situation...