Chapter 15 Mountbatten

Once the Hyderabad Tupa and Junagadh Tupa had formed an alliance of sorts, it could bring in a host of powerful Tupas. Regardless of what the Congress and the PML-N thought, at worst, the big deal would be the same as history anyway, unable to stop the rolling wheel, but as long as he could keep India’s disintegration of the Tuktuks at night for a couple of years, he felt that he was doing Ali Khan a great favor by returning to England with a straight face and a clear conscience.

Soon news of the communication between Sir Barron and the Congress and the PMLN had reached him, and Nehru himself came to the Viceroy’s House, while Ali Jinnah, the leader of the PMLN, did not.

But the PMLN representatives brought the views of Arijana, and the PMLN said that it could give its support in the ensuing war as long as the Viceroy’s House was clear about the Indo-Pakistani Partition Plan. And Nehru, the President of the Congress Party, was willing to cooperate with the interests of the British Empire in this matter.

The Congress Party and the PML-N’s position, so that the Viceroy’s side of a sigh of relief, British India stabilized, you can continue to support the war to recover Burma, to which the senior officials and commissioners of the provinces are also happy to see it.

More than supporting the war, the Congress Party and the PMLN are now more concerned about the forthcoming Central Legislative Council elections. If you don’t say democracy is really a good thing, the more chaotic it is the more it serves as a buffer for bargaining.

“It was an unexpected thing to get the Congress and the PMLN to express their support so quickly.” John had a sense of humor, as far as he could remember, this kind of cooperation had long been extinct, before he came to British India, he had heard that more than twenty years ago, the relationship between the Congress Party and the PMLN was still good.

“Nehru is Ali Jinnah are not ordinary people, in fact, can vaguely feel that the Viceroy’s office is slightly biased in favor of the PMLN.” Alan Wilson spoke just as shallowly and did not go deeper with the topic.

Although Nehru had only been to the Soviet Union once and could only be considered a hasty visitor, from the point of view of the operation after India’s independence, Nehru had really been influenced by the Soviet Union, and many of his policies were variants of the Soviet Union.

As for Ari Jinnah, he was a completely pro-Western leader, and both were considered heretics among their own faith in terms of beliefs; who would have thought that Nehru, a Hindu intellectual, would have an extraordinarily favorable view of the USSR, which was crying out for equality? It even influenced India for decades.

Ali Jinnah, on the other hand, was a pacifist Shia, which is a complete minority in the pacifist world, as well as within British India, and his ability to be the leader of the PMLN is almost as good as being open-minded.

From these two men, Alan Wilson suddenly realized that, really, does history need to rely on heresy to move forward? The Anglican Church in England was also unquestionably heretical compared to the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, yet it first started the Industrial Revolution.

Britain’s attitude towards the PML and the NCP must have been to slightly support the PML and prevent the NCP from becoming a dominant party. From the point of view of the whole Eurasian continent, an independent India certainly from blocked the connection with the Pax Christi world.

But Britain, not wanting India to become uncontrollable either, used the PML-N and later Pakistan to keep India in check. Alan Wilson remembers that Pakistan began the Indo-Pakistani partition as the Autonomous Dominions of Pakistan and was not formally established until the 1950s.

At present, British India’s two major native forces how, it is not the turn of the two Turkish commissioners to worry about, the two most preoccupied with the matter, or to engage in money, after Allen Wilson said, John is very much preoccupied with the matter of the Turkish Alliance, British India will not exist later, will exist for how long no one can say, it should be early preparations.

“Both Maharajas are pacifists, they really should walk around a bit. I can arrange for the two Maharajas to meet when I return, and I will also make a trip to Hyderabad at that time.” John said with a thoughtful look, “With both of us showing up as well, communication might go a little smoother.”

“We are the commissioners of Tupang, and looking out for the interests of the Tupang monarch is not a bad thing in any case.” Alan Wilson spread his hands as if he had the intention to kill a thief but was powerless to do so and said, “Maintaining the influence of the British Empire is the reason for us to do so.”

Chomp! John took out a match and wiped it off, lighting a cigarette for himself intoxicated, “Too right, that’s what I was going to say. It’s about time we got back to our respective native states, whatever we do takes time.”

“I agree, go and bid Sir Barron a farewell.” Alan Wilson thought about it for a moment and decided that there was no point in carrying on in Delhi, meeting just anyone who was more official than he was, so he might as well go back to Hyderabad and be a British gentleman.

Already do not know whether it is the British civil servant kernel more, or the Tubang Maharaja personal adviser color more two people, all the way to Sir Barron’s office, smooth as a flash, pushed open the door just want to speak, holding a microphone Sir Barron frowned and said, “He is not in, then well?”

Looking up just in time to see the two men come in, straight away he sorted through the paperwork and said, “My private secretary is away on something, could Alan help me with this paperwork, and send it to the Commander-in-Chief.”

“Uh, willing to serve.” Originally opened his mouth to say goodbye Allen Wilson could only helplessly agree, Sir Barron’s mouth of the Commander-in-Chief, is the current Commander-in-Chief of the Southeast Asia Theater of Operations, the famous Mountbatten.

Speaking of Mountbatten, I have to say that he has a halo over him, Mountbatten’s great-grandfather was Archduke Ludwig II of Hesse-Rheinland, and his grandfather was Prince Alexander Battenberg. His maternal great-grandfather was Prince Karl, son of Ludwig II, his maternal grandfather was Grand Duke Ludwig III of Hesse-Rheinland, cousin of Prince Alexander Battenberg, and his maternal grandmother was Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen Victoria.

Mountbatten had relatives in England, Denmark, Greece, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, as well as Hesse-Rheinland, Mecklenburg, and other German vassal royal houses.

In addition, by virtue of being a direct descendant of Queen Victoria, Louis Mountbatten was also one of the presumed heirs to the British throne at the time of his birth, ranking in the order of succession after Edward VII’s youngest daughter, Princess Maud, who later became Queen of Norway, and Kaiser Wilhelm II, but before Queen Victoria’s three youngest daughters and their descendants.

The current Mountbatten came to India two years ago to take up command of the Southeast Asia Theater, but as far as word from the theater command side of things is concerned, basically the battle plans don’t require much effort on the part of the Lord Commander-in-Chief. Compared to the Indian Colonial Department and the Viceroy’s Office, which were always in the middle of a run, Mountbatten was very much at leisure.