Abstract
Abstract Wavell stayed on in London, pressing the cabinet for a “definite policy” on his breakdown plan, unaware that Attlee had already decided on his replacement. Rear-Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, called “Dickie” by his favorite cousin “Bertie,” King George VI, and by dear friends like Noel Coward, Alan Campbell-Johnson, and Winston Churchill, had served as Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia since 1943. He and his wife, Lady Edwina Mountbatten, had met and befriended Nehru in Singapore in March 1946. The Labor Party’s Indian Chair Krishna Menon, Nehru’s closest comrade, had tirelessly urged Attlee to send Mountbatten out to India to replace Wavell as Britain’s last viceroy. Mountbatten’s royal blood appealed as much to India’s princes as his radical views and social charms did to Nehru.
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