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Chapter 15 - Southeast Asia Theater Commander-in-Chief Mountbatten

Once the Hyderabad and Junagadh toast states form an alliance of sorts, they can drive numerous powerful toast states to join. No matter what the Congress Party and the PML-N thought, the worst outcome anyway, the big deal would be the same as history, unable to stop the rolling wheel, but as long as he could make India disintegrate the earth states for a few years at night, he felt he would be doing right by Ali Khan and return to England with a straight face and a clear conscience.

Soon news about the communication between Sir Barun and the Congress Party and the PML-N had come, and Nehru himself came to the Viceroy's residence, while the leader of the PML-N, Ari Jinnah, did not.

But the representative of PML-N brought Ali Jinnah's opinion, and the PML-N said that as long as the Viceroy's plan for the partition of India and Pakistan was clear, it could give support in the next war. The President of the Congress Party, Nehru, was also willing to cooperate with the interests of the British Empire in this matter.

The NCP and the PMLN's position made the Viceroy's side breathe a sigh of relief that British India was stable enough to continue to support the war to recover Burma, and the provincial high officials and commissioners were happy to see this.

The NCP and PML-N are now more concerned about the upcoming Central Legislative Assembly elections than supporting the war. If not, democracy is a good thing. The more chaotic it is, the more it can be used as a buffer for bargaining.

"It was an unexpected thing to get the NCP and PML-N to express their support so quickly." John had a feeling, in his impression, this kind of cooperation has long been extinct, did not come to British India before, but heard that more than twenty years ago, the relationship between the Congress Party and the PML-N is still good.

"Nehru is Ali Jinnah are not ordinary people, in fact, can vaguely feel that the Governor General's Office is slightly biased towards the PML-N." Alan Wilson spoke just as shallowly, did not follow the topic in depth.

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

As for Ari Jinnah, he was a completely pro-Western leader, and in terms of faith, both were considered heretics among their own faith. Who would have thought that Nehru, a Hindu intellectual, had an extra fondness for the Soviet Union, which shouted equality? It even influenced India for decades.

Ari Jinnah, on the other hand, was a Peaceful Shiite, which is a complete minority in the Peaceful world and within British India, and his ability to be the leader of the PML-N was almost as good as being open-minded.

From these two people, Alan Wilson suddenly found that really history needs to rely on heresy to advance? The Anglican Church in England is also unquestionably heretical compared to the Roman Catholic Church in the Middle Ages, yet it first began the industrial revolution.

Britain's attitude toward the PML and the NCP must have been to slightly support the PML and prevent the NCP from becoming dominant. From the point of view of the whole Eurasian continent, independent India certainly from blocking the connection with the pacifist world.

But Britain also did not want India to become uncontrollable, it used the PMLN and later Pakistan to hold India in check. Alan Wilson remembered that Pakistan had begun the partition of India and Pakistan as the autonomous territory of Pakistan, and was not formally established until the 1950s.

At present, how the two major native powers of British India, it is not the turn of the two earth state commissioners to worry about, the two people are most concerned about things, or to engage in money, after Alan Wilson a said, John is very concerned about the matter of the earth state alliance, British India will not exist in the future, will exist for how long who can not say, should be prepared early.

"Both maharajahs 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, "It might be smoother for both of us to show up as well, and communication might go a little smoother."

"We are the commissioners of the earth state, and it is not a bad thing to think about the interests of the monarch of the earth state in any case." Alan Wilson spread his hands, as if he had the intention to kill the thief without the ability to return to heaven, "Maintaining the influence of the British Empire is the reason for us to do so."

Chug! John took out a match and gave lit a cigarette for himself intoxicated said, "Too right, that's what I want to say. It's time for us to go back to our respective earth states too, whatever we do will take time."

"I agree, go say goodbye to Sir Barron." Alan Wilson thought for a moment, think in New Delhi with also not much meaning, see a random person than his own official, might as well return to Hyderabad as a British gentleman.

Already do not know whether it is more British civil servants kernel, or the Maharaja of the earth state personal adviser color more of the two, all the way to Sir Barron's office, smoothly a mess, push open the door just want to speak, holding the microphone Sir Barron frowned, "he is not in, then okay?"

Looking up just in time to see the two come in, he straightened up the file and said, "My private secretary is away on something, can Alan help me with this file, to the Commander-in-Chief."

"Uh, willing to serve." The Commander-in-Chief that Sir Barron was talking about was the current Commander-in-Chief of the Southeast Asia Theater, the famous Mountbatten.

The great-grandfather of Mountbatten was Grand Duke Ludwig II of Hesse-Rhine 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-Rhineland, 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 in the royal houses of the German lords of Hesse-Rhineland and Mecklenburg.

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

The current Mountbatten arrived in India two years ago to assume command of the Southeast Asian theater of operations, but as far as the theater command is concerned, there is basically not much in the way of operational planning that requires the Lord Commander-in-Chief's attention. Compared with the Indian Colonial Department and the Viceroy's Office, which were always in operation, Mountbatten was very free.