Chapter 244 Katherine Hepburn

The more this time, the more cautious, Pamela still want to follow to New Delhi to take office it, do not want to offend their father at this time, directly launched a walk for the best action, can also be to strategic turn in.

Newlywed Patricia, very surprised ushered in the sister’s visit, only to realize that Mountbatten has been appointed Governor-General of British India, on behalf of the representative of London to deal with the affairs of British India with full powers.

“Plenipotentiary powers, don’t they have to be recognized by London?” Patricia was shocked, even if she had little understanding of politics, she understood that full powers were not something that could be obtained by ordinary people, especially full powers for British India, which was the thing that London’s foreign affairs department was most concerned about.

After becoming British India from the East India Company, such rights would only be limited by communication technology. Now the Cabinet had gone so far as to allow Father to have carte blanche to deal with British India without Cabinet approval in order to get him into office?

“Yes, I had been very worried.” Pamela, with a tone that exclaimed that it was a fluke, and for that reason asked from New Delhi if there was any roundabout way, did not realize that it was really true to her words, and that the Cabinet had directly acceded to her father’s seemingly very rude request.

Both sisters were very surprised by the cabinet’s decision, although not involved in politics, but they are well-born, in the hearing and seeing, also know that this appointment is a bit abnormal.

The two sisters did not know, in fact, according to the history of two people’s father, after getting the full authority to deal with British India, also tossed the Labor Party Cabinet in London.

Adderley in the middle of the speech, was originally decided in two years time, that is, in 1948 to British India problem solved. But General Mountbatten arrived in British India, half a year to determine the program of the partition of India and Pakistan, and then couldn’t wait to declare India’s independence.

This news was like a bomb that detonated, and suddenly the whole world was in an uproar. In the British Parliament, in the Prime Minister’s residence, in Buckingham Palace, an atmosphere of shock prevailed everywhere. No one, not even the Prime Minister, Mr. Adderley, had ever imagined that Mountbatten would be so impatient to lower the curtain on the British Empire in India.

It was only five months after Mountbatten’s arrival in British India that the last Governor-General of British India had allowed British India to disappear and give birth to two nations.

Now that history has taken a slightly different turn, Alan Wilson is in New Delhi waiting with baited breath for the Viceroy, who was slightly out of time, to take office and is ready to revise history, not a day goes by when the Cabinet says that the problem will be solved in 1948.

To be fair, Mountbatten is even more reluctant to take office now than he has been historically, and his daughter is only one of the reasons. The problem was that there was a drought breaking out in British India right now, and it was still very large, and that was a known fact.

He didn’t want to go to British India to fight this drought that was not going to end any time soon. So although he accepted the appointment, he was not prepared to leave immediately and wait until the drought was contained before taking up his post.

Allen Wilson, who had been having a mole lurking around the future Governor General, of course again, not surprisingly, learned that Mountbatten wanted to wait until the drought was over to take up his post, and on this he launched into consoling Pamela.

That General Mountbatten had been appointed Viceroy of British India was a fact, and as to when he would take office was not of much importance from the point of view of the civil service of British India.

Even if Mountbatten were to perform the duties of Viceroy of British India in London, there would be no opinion from the Viceroyalty to the Supreme Court, and it would probably be more than happy.

The matter was so settled that it did not matter very much when the new Viceroy came. The civil servants of British India were happier when they came late, and that was all right; everyone was already busy fighting the drought.

And the drought was fought under the attention of the whole world. British India had never been noticed by the whole world as it was at this time. Regarding Indians, it is still synonymous with inactivity and female hell. Gandhi painted a diametrically opposite picture and was universally acclaimed by the world.

It was in this climate of universal worldwide attention and the British Indian colonial government’s all-out effort to combat the drought that Vivien Leigh finally arrived in the not-so-familiar United States, where she had been quite a few times before. The movie Gone with the Wind, which gained worldwide fame, was filmed in the United States.

At the twelfth Academy Awards, Gone with the Wind was nominated for fifteen awards, and eventually collected ten awards, becoming the biggest winner of that edition.

Vivien Leigh’s beauty was not discovered by the world until she was about twenty-five years old, and those endless close-ups in Gone with the Wind proclaimed that God had brought another angel to the earth, with eyes so beautiful that they were overflowing with sweetness, and a kind of nervousness in her capriciousness that made her feel frightened and defensive.

Only this time, after a world war, when the United States was hailed as the country of the future, has now succeeded in topping the world, before the war also dominated the international situation of the British Empire, but now some of the downtrodden aristocrats.

Vivienne wondered if this would affect this trip to America, but it seems not! She was still welcomed by the Hollywood community and immediately made the entertainment papers in Los Angeles.

Here’s what the local paper had to say about Vivien Leigh’s arrival, “Her pale green eyes are so pure that there is not a trace of brown in them, and with their dark lashes and arched corners they appear to be full of flavor, and above them are two thick, inky black eyebrows slanting there, giving a very distinct slant to her magnolia-white skin, which is exceedingly valuable to Southern women. She has two features in her face, the delicacy of her mother, from the seaside aristocracy of French blood, and the ruggedness of her father, from the pompous and vulgar Irish.”

“There’s no telling what kind of classic image she’ll bring us this time she’s back in Hollywood.”

After several years, America’s entertainment industry still favors Vivienne, and nothing seems to have changed. But change does occur, and Vivien Leigh herself has appeared to change.

She did bring roles, but not in the middle of a movie, but rather overlapping with the current topicality of focusing on the drought in British India, bringing in films that, in the eyes of many citizens of Europe and the United States, had the label of exoticism.

After arriving in the United States, Fei Wenli went to find her best friend, once the same audition Gone with the Wind Katharine Hepburn, the two also became good friends because of that time, Katharine Hepburn even went to the United Kingdom specifically to participate in Fei Wenli’s wedding.

In Katharine Hepburn’s eyes, Vivien Leigh was undoubtedly a genius, she learned to speak French, German, Italian, and later on, she even taught herself Russian and American southern accent for the movie.

Gone with the Wind heroine candidates, Hollywood’s top beauties were present, but when Vivien Leigh, of Irish and French descent, appeared. The acting was superb, the air of lightness, and even more magical were the mesmerizing green eyes, not unlike those in the original. The stunning Vivien Leigh was booked for what would become Houska.

Katharine Hepburn was also in that audition, the same was out of nowhere Fei Wenli stunning, a friendship was born as a result, once again to see Fei Wenli’s Katharine Hepburn, very excited, English face more than a trace of softness, “Vivian, this time you came to the United States, is not a new film to shoot.”

“Katherine, I haven’t given up on being an actress, but there are obviously more important things going on right now.” Vivienne did not hide from her best friend that she had come to America from British India or the purpose of coming to America.

Stating that she came to America this time because she wanted to do something for the place where she was born. Under the operation of public opinion in Britain and the United States, each with its own mind but not coincidentally, the name Gandhi, along with British India, was indeed known to many people.

Vivienne arrived in the United States just a week after Gandhi had already declared a hunger strike, which had officially begun, and in fact in British India Gandhi had now moved on to the next stage of a month-long one-meal-a-day campaign to call on Indians to save food.

The news hasn’t spread yet, but the US is still in the midst of a feverish focus on India, and Katharine Hepburn, who doesn’t pay much attention to the international situation, has heard something about it.

This person who is reckless for love, is now more fraternal? Katherine Hepburn was puzzled in her heart, but did not ask more questions, and turned to ask Fei Wenli what she wanted to do.

“I hope that as the undoubted world power, the United States can pay attention to some other countries and shoulder the responsibility of leading the world. Right now many people in British India are facing the tragic situation of being starved to death, and part of the reason I came to the United States was because I hoped to evoke American compassion.” Vivienne had spent a lot of time in New Delhi and unconsciously took on a bit of a civil servant’s tone when she spoke.

Katharine Hepburn looked at Vivien Leigh in surprise, feeling as if there was a change in the other party somewhere, but couldn’t quite put her finger on it.

But Katherine Hepburn was equally able to feel that the friendship between the two had not changed, everyone is an actor, to each other is not acting, a glance can be seen.

“Want me to help?” Katharine Hepburn took the initiative to express her willingness to help, she had a feeling in her heart that Vivien Leigh would be able to cause an extraordinary craze in the United States, this time.

“Thank you so much, Katherine.” Fei Wenli said with a look of gratitude, “By the way, I also brought a movie. If there are any comments on it, you can also bring it up and see if there are any changes to be made.”

Vivien Leigh was worthy of being prepared, and Katharine Hepburn began to study up on how they could achieve a sensational effect as soon as possible under the current public opinion, in fact, for the two of them, this was a very simple thing, with the popularity of the two of them, this was not a problem at all.

As long as the two are willing to put forward an invitation, Hollywood’s big-name actors and actresses will surely rush to make things known to the public in the shortest possible time.