Chapter 243 – Governor Mountbatten
Already pissed in fear? Exclaimed invincible? Ender looked at the assistant commissioner who was reputed to have whimsical ideas, could this be the secret of the other party’s faster promotion than himself?
“But it seems that international public opinion doesn’t have this kind of voice appearing!” Ender said with some difficulty, “In saying that the Indians believe it?”
That’s the right person you’re asking! Alan Wilson straightened up and said, “We can say that international public opinion says just that. As to whether Indians believe it or not, it has to be looked at in two ways; there are two kinds of people in any given region; the inferiority complexes who attribute to their own people shortcomings that are common to all mankind, and the maximalists who do just the opposite, believing that their own people have strengths that are not found in all mankind. Both groups can be described as large.”
“The former dare not look us colonists in the eye when they see us. The latter’s mentality is probably something like, we European barbarians have only risen to prominence in the last three hundred years, how can we compete with their ancient civilization?”
Alan Wilson said this turn of phrase, unrestrained ridicule, “I would kill myself immediately if I were them, being humiliated by a bunch of monkeys who just came down from the trees in three hundred years of money is enough to prove our excellence. As for them, taking knowledge accumulated thousands of years ago to prove how excellent they are, if this were in the natural world, Darwin’s Law would have long been in effect.”
Seeing Ender nodding, Alan Wilson continued, “What I’ve said can be generalized to all the countries that consider themselves ancient civilizations including but not limited to India. Specifically on India, a portion of Indians who go to heaven with two compliments will absolutely believe it, but of course this needs to be guided by the fact that we are concentrating on praising Gandhi above all else, not praising Indians.”
“The reason for this?” Ender looked puzzled, not quite understanding what difference it made.
“We all know Gandhi is Gandhi and Indians are Indians. But the Indians themselves don’t see it that way, and that’s something that’s not true of ancient civilizations, it’s true of all nations; praise Gandhi, and the Indians will take it as a compliment to them. Just as in times of war most citizens are cannon fodder but imagine themselves to be Churchill, so in fact am I.”
Life is already so hard, what would one do if one didn’t indulge in the world of fantasy for some fun?
It’s also that he came late, if he came a few decades earlier and became George V, how could the British Empire fall to such a state?
“Regarding our job, it’s essentially to try to make life as bad as possible for the colonists before we leave.” Alan Wilson summarized with a smile on his face, “It’s not just like that in British India, it should be like that in all the colonies.”
“That’s too ungentlemanly, isn’t it?” Ender begged to differ, “It would be met with cynicism.”
“When did you get the illusion that the British Empire was gentlemanly?” Alan Wilson teased as he downed the last of his whiskey, “As if you didn’t get a cut of this drought.”
On the matter of Gandhi’s hunger strike, Allen Wilson was also prepared to split Gandhi’s behavior from Indians as a group by, as a certain source, who wishes to remain anonymous, pointing out that Indians are not worthy of such a leader who shines with such a human light.
At the end of the day, the world only needs such a symbol and not Indians to be viewed as such, what is the saying, fan behavior should not rise to the level of an icon, Gandhi himself deserves to be honored, but only by Gandhi alone and not by Indians.
In any case, Sir Gandhi’s call to the entire subcontinent to scrimp and save to tide over the difficulties is a commendable thing.
For once the Americans were faster than even Alan Wilson, the party in question, knowing that Vivienne had not yet arrived in the United States, and that normally there should not be a situation in which the United States would be more enthusiastic than the United Kingdom.
But if you look at it from the point of view of disgusting the British Empire, this behavior can be understood.
Now, the war has been over for a year, in this year, certainly the Soviet Union has aroused the fear of the United States. But the British and French side also still have huge colonies, and embraced the return to Asia.
Before the Dutch attack on the battle of Jakarta, the Dutch East India is the first landing of the British army, for the Dutch reinforcements are still on the road to buy time, and Belgium, and Portugal, and even isolated Spain have sent troops, the old imperialist powers to warm each other, cover each other tightly grasping the colonies do not let go, the United States in the eyes, is not completely speechless.
After all, the current world situation should be viewed from two sides, from the national point of view, the Soviet Union is certainly a more threatening opponent than Britain and France, but from the international order, the current international order there are still remnants of the previous era.
This residue is manifested in the fact that there are still huge colonies in the world today, belonging to different sovereign states in Europe.
British India was the cornerstone of the British Empire, a fact known to all, and certainly known to the United States.
The U.S. is embarrassed in the Soviet Union eyeing the situation, directly and the United Kingdom flipped, but seize the opportunity to connote the United Kingdom is very willing, Gandhi’s hunger strike incident, is a good opportunity.
Although can not explicitly this time to respond decisively to the Governor General’s Office and Gandhi’s hunger strike against the matter, but the connotation of the yin and yang, are within the scope of freedom of speech.
This kind of disobedience, if the United States pro father is still in the peak, less to teach to be a man. But now the pro-daddy Great Britain is old and frail, old arms and legs, can only be seen as not seeing, in saying that just the words on the different, and not each one.
In Gandhi hunger strike on this matter, the relationship between the United Kingdom and the United States is quite complex, is considered to form a synergy, which makes Gandhi’s reputation in the world has risen a step.
Although by the United States with public opinion connotation, but this matter to be divided into how to look at, the Americans blow the more ruthless, wait until Fei Wenli set foot on American soil, began to raise funds in the name of India’s daughter, it will be more sensational.
Hollywood’s golden age has come to the second half, after the Great Depression Hollywood successive emergence of such legendary works, which in nineteen forty-one after the release of unprecedented success, so that the star Vivien Leigh red all over the United States, Hollywood is considered to be the first time to really penetrate the hearts and minds of the people.
Through the words of Foltseva, all of Vivien Leigh’s great fame reached the Soviet Union, and in the Golden Age, world-class sex icon Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, synonymous with elegance, and Greta Garbo, who has been called the pinnacle of mankind’s aesthetic evolution, among others.
Currently Greta Garbo has passed her peak, Katharine Hepburn is Vivien Leigh’s underdog, and as for Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe, none of them are famous yet.
It can be said that in the last two years, only Ingrid Bergman, among actresses, can compete with Vivien Leigh.
If the fervor of the concentrated coverage of Gandhi in the United States had not passed, and Vivien Leigh had arrived in the United States, the Great British Treasure would surely have received either genuine, or false, enthusiasm from all walks of life.
Through the Viceroy’s House, the fact that Gandhi was widely acclaimed by the international community spread throughout the subcontinent.
Indians who all considered themselves to be Gandhians were naturally caught up in the inspiration that the whole world was watching the subcontinent, and since Gandhiji had gone on a hunger strike to show his support for the scrimp and save movement, he himself had gone on a hunger strike.
“Such an awesome Indian, we are not far from leaving.” According to a certain source, who wished to remain anonymous, the current administrator of British India, Sir Barron, Commissioner of the Viceroyalty, put it this way in a tone that had been pissed in fear, exclaiming that India would not dare to overcome.
“But then again, Gandhi is so old that nothing can go wrong.” Sir Barron, who had a cigar between his fingers, smiled as he collected the telegram and confirmed that this month’s proceeds had arrived, while leaking out a piece of good news, “I heard that the Mountbatten family is holding a wedding, it’s very lively, and quite a few Whitehall civil servants are attending. That little girl Pamela shone, wearing a pair of jeweled shoes, worth a fortune, do you know where they came from?”
“I don’t know, but I’ve heard that General Mountbatten’s wife is from a wealthy family, a great tycoon, and probably favors Pamela in particular.” Alan Wilson had a bewildered look on his face, showing that he was completely kept in the dark and said, “For the upper class things, how would I know.”
“Oh yeah, well, it’s said to be a gemstone native to India, by Pamela’s own words.” Sir Barron laughed, seeing through it and said, “But showing off too much may attract some flies, don’t lose out on the small things.”
“Thank you Sir for the reminder.” Alan Wilson’s smile faded away, asked himself that there is indeed such a possibility, the thought of this even the Royal Bank of Scotland’s dividend telegrams do not smell good when looking at them.
The assistant commissioner after the regular commissioner some words of, now have a kind of always want to be difficult people want to harm me mentality.
Until three days later, a telegram was sent from London, “Whitehall has spoken to Father, and His Majesty will anoint Father as the Earl of Burma in recognition of his contributions on the battlefields of Southeast Asia. Father is asking the Cabinet for carte blanche and wants to use it to avoid going to New Delhi to take up his post, any cracks?”
“Wow!” Allen Wilson almost jumped to the telegraph room, let the interpreter go to rest, personally to London telegram, a spit on the little girl’s thoughts, poor Tom ah, was played in the palm of the hand ……
At the end of the telegram, Alan Wilson wrote, “I expect Whitehall will accede to your father’s request.”
On the last day of June, 1946, the Cabinet, after careful consideration, announced the choice of the new Vice-King and Viceroy of British India, which was to be Mountbatten, who had been highly decorated on the battlefields of Southeast Asia.
Once the news was announced, Mountbatten himself was in shock, his mind blank. Stealing a glance at her father out of the corner of her eye, Pamela decided, for the time being, not to act rashly, and opened her mouth directly to say that she missed her sister, and was going to go find her married sister to chat.