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...second result was the appointment of Lord Louis Mountbatten as Allied Commander in East Asia. This step made as clear as anyone could expect that an end had been put to ambiguity in British and American military policy in the Far East. It proved that the British were now 1) willing to undertake a major campaign against the Japs, 2) glad to assume responsibility for the campaign, 3) committed, by the choice of a young and vigorous commander, to push the campaign as forcefully as possible. The Churchill line became one of savage verbal pounding...
...General George C. Marshall, Admiral Ernest King, Field Marshal Sir John G. Dill, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Lieut. General Dwight Eisenhower, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, Lieut. Generals Henry H. Arnold and Brehon B. Somervell, Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Lieut. General Sir Hastings Ismay, Air Vice Marshal Inglis and Lend-Lease Administrator W. Averell Harriman...
Churchill's entourage was equally impressive: Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, Chief of Britain's Naval Staff; General Sir Alan Francis Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of Air Staff; Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of the Commandos; Field Marshal Sir John Dill; Lieut. General Sir Harold Alexander, Commander in Chief of the Middle East; Major General Sir Bernard Montgomery, Commander of the Eighth Army (see p. 26); Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder...
...picture was written, produced, directed and acted by Noel Coward. The Royal Navy helped in its making, saw that naval details were correct down to the last pompom. Its hero is widely supposed, though Coward has denied it, to be Coward's friend Lord Louis Mountbatten, who commanded and lost a destroyer (H.M.S. Kelly) before he became Commando-in-Chief. Coward plays the part...
...make this recording, NBC men brought four Commandomen to their Manhattan studios and recorded ad lib interviews on their experiences. Then NBC arranged for a speech by Commando Commander Lord Louis Mountbatten. The records were skillfully woven into a composite half-hour interview...