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Arthur, welcome to Calcutta.
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Very good of you to meet me sir.
Not at all old chap.
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Quite hot already isn't it?
Nothing like it'll be later on.
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Back home, we keep
reading about riots, sir.
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Yes, damn shame this
Hindu and Moslem business.
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I'm afraid you've come
out at a very bad time.
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However, I'll get you home,
give you a good English breakfast.
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Mother sent out two
pots of strawberry jam
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Oh! splendid, that's the best
news I've heard for a long time.
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The Indian Civil Service
has been my life,
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could have been
yours too, but...
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England seems
determined to pull out soon.
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What are they doing here?
Nowhere else to go,
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They're the homeless ones.
So many.
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You see it all over Calcutta,
thousands without work or homes.
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The city's grown
enormously in recent years
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Can't something
be done for them?
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It's appalling.
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Yes, I know
what you're thinking
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I used to feel the same
myself at one time till I...
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I realised they're used to it.
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That damned fatalism
of theirs I suppose.
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Anyway, they just accept it
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Allah hu akbar!
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Allah hu akbar!
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Allah hu akbar!
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(Attlee)
I suppose Mountbatten is the
right man for the Viceroy's job?
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(Cripps)
Not only the right man,
he's the only one
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Many people in England are
worried by his film star profile...
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...his dash, the playboy image.
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Surely his success as supreme
commander would have settled all that.
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In any case, the important thing
is the reaction to him in India
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People there
know him, respect him,
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...the victorious leader...
...a member of the royal family.
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The man who accepted the
Japanese surrender at Singapore
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Yes and...
...for all he's an aristocrat,
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he does have
the common touch.
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Come in.
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Lord Mountbatten, sir
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Thank you for coming
so promptly, Lord Louis
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I'm afraid things
are reaching a crisis.
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The London conference?
Never a doubt...nothing's settled
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Jinnah, Nehru and the others
are aware that we intend to...
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...replace Wavell. They simply
won't consult with him anymore.
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We've had reports of renewed
violence, and it's spreading.
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To check it, a new initiative
must come from London now.
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Well, Prime Minister,
I've been giving it some thought,
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and it seems to me, you have
the ideal man out there already,
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the commander in chief of the
Indian army, General Auchinleck.
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He'll have his work cut out
holding the forces together.
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What we need is not
a general, but someone
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who is also a diplomat,
who can get people to talk...
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Talking is no good,
there's been enough talking.
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Something must be done
in order to defuse the situation.
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Such as?
Such as...
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setting a definite
date for independence.
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If I go out there on some
kind of open-ended thing...
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...we could be
messing around forever.
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We thought in about 2 years.
That's far too long.
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It has to be something more like
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next June, 1948, by the latest.
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Next June! By the time
that could be announced...
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that will leave only,
15 months!
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Well, I don't want to be out
there twiddling my thumbs.
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(Cripps) But the situation is ...
(Attlee) Just a minute!
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Does that mean that if the
government agrees to the time limit
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of June 1948, you accept?
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Well, there's still
one last thing...
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Is the Secretary of State
for India above the Viceroy?
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Of course he is. The Secretary
speaks for the Cabinet.
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I can't have that. I can't have the
cabinet sitting on top of me all the time
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Anything else would be equivalent of
giving you full plenipotentiary powers!
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No one has been
given those this century!
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Well, that's that!
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Unless I have full powers,
to make decisions...
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...which are mine, and
mine alone, on the spot...
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I can't accept.
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(Buckingham Palace)
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Lord Mountbatten, sir.
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(King George VI)
Good to see you Dickie
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I've had a meeting with
the Prime Minister but...
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It's incredible, but he wants me
to take over as Viceroy, and...
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Yes, he told me last
week he was planning to.
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Sit down Dickie.
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I think it's a splendid idea.
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But Bertie, the Viceroy
is your representative...
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...to all intents and purposes,
he is you!
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But whoever is appointed this time,
his express purpose will be
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to liquidate the Indian Empire
and bring the days
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of the British Raj to an end.
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But the problems there
are so deep rooted
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They're almost
beyond imagination.
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Look how bad it will be for
you and the family if I fail.
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Ah, but on the other hand,
look how good if you succeed.
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We must accept
the inevitable Dickie.
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I can't help a
deep sadness that the...
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...end of the Empire should
be coming in my time...
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...but we can't fight history.
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The brightest
jewel in the crown.
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I very much
regret that the...
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war prevented me
from traveling to India.
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And now,
it will be given away...
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without my ever
having seen it.
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So, you want me to accept.
I sincerely hope you will.
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Because I believe you are
the only one who can do it.
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And I hope that,
somehow you will be able to
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arrange that not all our
links with India are severed.
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(Edwina Mountbatten)
You're very silent.
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Attlee's asked me to be
the next Viceroy of India.
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Viceroy!
No one's to know.
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Well obviously.
What did you say?
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That I couldn't give him
an answer straight away...
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not till I've talked it over with Bertie.
(Edwina) And did you?
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Bertie's all for it.
He says they need me ... and
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...my instinct is just
to turn it down flat.
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I mean, with all the political
and religious quarrels
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the situation is such a mess
that the job is almost impossible.
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What can be done?
I don't know.
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Do you think
I should take it?
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I need your advice
Edwina, because
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there's no-one else
I can talk it over with.
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I'd go to Winston,
but he just explodes
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at any suggestion
of giving up India.
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Well, he still believes in the
empire, so it's understandable.
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So, what am I to do?
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I mean, it concerns you
just as much as me.
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If I'm Viceroy,
you're Vicereine.
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Well, you can't ask
me advice on this.
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You know how much
I love India.
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I just have to think of it,
and I can't wait to be there.
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and I'd be less than honest if
I didn't admit these last two months
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have been a bit
of a let down.
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After the war,
all the excitement.
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Yes, old England is a bit
drab after Ceylon and Burma.
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Yes, isn't it just.
As for being Viceroy, well...
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...you're the obvious choice.
It's a great honour...
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but you'd be
risking everything.
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I know ... and I don't want to
go down as a resounding flop.
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So what do you think?
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Well, I haven't
really taken it in yet.
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But don't ask me to
advise you not to accept
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the greatest
challenge of your career.
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(Broadlands, Hampshire, England)
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(Princess Victoria)
Dickie, how could you?
You know what people will say.
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You accepted simply
for the glitter.
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To sit on a gilded throne
pretending to be a king.
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Oh, I doubt that, mama.
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The government has
got itself into a corner
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with this offer
of independence
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and they can't
get out of it.
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They don't want to,
and if I can help with...
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They know that it's
bound to end in disaster.
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He may be more successful than...
Edwina! ... please...
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...you don't understand.
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I'm sorry for him.
All his life he's been driven.
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He is obsessed with
following his father's career
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...step by step.
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Like this cruiser squadron.
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You're father commanded it,
so you want it.
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And then to be
Admiral of the Fleet, but now...
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the politicians are
going to sacrifice you
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just as they sacrificed
and ruined your father.
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Mama!
No one could...
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have been more loyal,
more dedicated than he was.
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but because the
family was German
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and those vicious spy rumours
started, they sacrificed him.
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You know...
you've spent your whole life...
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...trying to wipe out
that stain on his memory.
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and now you're going
to throw it all away.
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You're going to become
another scapegoat just like...
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Do you think
I'm bound to fail?
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Fail ... you Dickie?
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You wouldn't have accepted
the job if you didn't think
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you had at least a
chance of succeeding.
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Attlee put the
odds at 6 to 4.
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Personally, I see them
as nearer 1000 to 1.
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...still... I'm damned well
going to have a go.
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(Jinnah)
What we have done...
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...is the most significant
act in our history.
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Never, have we...
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in the whole history
of the Muslim League...
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...done anything except by...
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...constitutional methods.
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But now...
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...we are obliged...
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...we are forced
into this position.
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This day,
we have to bid...
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...goodbye to
constitutional methods.
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Today...
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...we have forged a pistol...
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...and are in a
position to use it...
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If the Congress wants war...
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...then we accept that offer.
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We shall have India...
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... divided ...
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... or ...
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...we shall have India ...
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... destroyed!
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Pakistan zindabad! ...
Pakistan zindabad!
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(India House, London)
I hate this bloody place.
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You'd think we were
back in the 19th century.
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Typical of British thinking
about India, Pug.
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OK. For those of you
who do not know each other...
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let me just run
through the basic team.
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First, my two right hand men...
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General Lord Ismay,
who'll be our chief of staff...
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and Sir Eric Mieville,
great expert on Indian affairs.
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Then my wartime aides...
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Captain Ronald Brockman,
Royal Navy...
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Commander George Nichols,
Royal Navy...
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and Lieutenant Colonel
Vernon Erskine-Crum.
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Scots Guards.
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Let us not forget
the Scots Guards.
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And last, but by no means least
... Alan Campbell-Johnson.
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Alan will be in charge
of public relations,
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publicity, press liaison,
and so forth.
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(Sir Eric Mieville)
There's never been
a press spokesman appointed
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to the Viceregal staff before sir.
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That's right.
This is the first time
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because I want the ordinary
Indian, as well as his leaders
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to know why I've come
and what I'm doing.
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Now, I think that's
everyone, except Peter.
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I believe you all
know my senior ADC
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Lieutenant Commander
Peter Howes.
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Right ... now ... gentlemen.
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None of this is
going to be easy.
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So to let you know what you're
up against, I've had extracts
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of recent newsreels
linked together to show
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some of the rioting in
the Punjab, in Calcutta, and Bombay
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Peter, if you'd
draw the blinds.
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Good to see the
chief back in action.
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The worst riot in India's
strife-torn history is sparked off...
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as Muslims battle Hindus over
Britain's plans for independence.
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There are plenty of onlookers,
and all ringside seats are taken.
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Whilst the Indian
leaders plead for reason...
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following Jinnah's
direct day of action...
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Star film highlights the
continuing mob violence
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looting of shops,
and consequent loss of life.
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Government troops are fighting
a desperate rear-guard action
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to keep the communal
rioting under control.
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With building after
building raked by fire...
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thousands are being
made homeless, and city life
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has been brought
to a standstill.
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In the ravaged towns,
troops find
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the mangled remains
of religious violence.
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The death toll cannot
be given, but already,
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hundreds are dead,
thousands wounded
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and the city is threatened with
outbreaks of typhoid and cholera.
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This is holy war, where men, women
and children are being slaughtered
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in the most savage
outbursts of religious frenzy.
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(Winston Churchill)
It's all changed, Pug.
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Nothing's the way I thought
it would be, afterwards.
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(Lord Ismay)
Well, at least we
survived the war, sir.
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Will we survive
this socialist government?
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Everything we fought
for is being destroyed.
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And now this shameful
abandonment of the empire.
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Part of an historical process.
Bound to come.
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When the time was right.
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When India had proved able
to govern herself democratically.
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You know as well as I do, this
so-called interim government is a farce.
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Well isn't that rather
a reflection on us
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that after 200 years
of rule in India...
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we can't leave her in a
fit state to take care of herself?
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You're not going to get any
honours out of this, you know Pug.
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That's not why I'm going
Then why?
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Because I'm proud
of our record there.
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I'd hate to see it spoiled
by the way we leave her.
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Besides, if Dickie is prepared to
go on the field for the last chucka
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twelve goals down...
I want to be there with him.
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I'm sorry you are having
anything to do with it.
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Lord Louis hopes that
you would understand.
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That you'll send him some
word of encouragement.
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Encouragement! For someone
who I never intend to speak to again?
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You can tell him from me, that
I consider by accepting this post
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he is betraying
his family...his country...
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...his king ...
...and the empire.
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What I have to say will be said
to the nation in its proper place...
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...the House of Commons.
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As for the new Viceroy
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is he to make new efforts
to restore the situation?
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Or is it merely
Operation Scuttle on which
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he and other distinguished
officers have been dispatched?
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Many have defended
Britain against her foes.
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None, can defend
her against herself.
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But at least, let us
not add by shameful flight
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by a premature
and hurried scuttle...
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at least let's not add to the
pangs of sorrow so many of us feel,
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the taint and
smear of shame.
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Ok Ronnie.
(Brockman) Thank you sir.
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Nearly there Peter.
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00:21:39,490 --> 00:21:43,160
We'll be landing at
Delhi in half an hour.
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Kill Mizzen.
Don't you dare.
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You're a beast. You might
have given us a little longer.
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There it is.
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00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:01,590
What on earth
do you want that for?
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I couldn't think
where else to put it.
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00:22:05,510 --> 00:22:09,420
Just so long as you don't walk off
the plane with that box under your arm.
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00:22:09,450 --> 00:22:11,960
No ... Elizabeth will.
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00:22:13,690 --> 00:22:15,540
He's a twit.
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Guard, attention!
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George Abell sir.
Private secretary to Lord Wavell.
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Of course, I believe you'll be
staying on for the continuity.
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Yes sir.
Splendid.
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I expect I shall have to
rely on you a great deal.
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This is my wife, Lady Mountbatten,
and my daughter Pamela.
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00:22:48,100 --> 00:22:50,390
Would you like
to step this way sir.
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Mr Nehru of the Congress
party, Your Excellency.
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Yes indeed. You're repaying the
compliment of Singapore, Mr Nehru?
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The least I could do,
Your Excellency. It is a pleasure
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to welcome you to India...
... and you, Lady Mountbatten.
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Liaquat Ali Khan,
deputy leader of the Muslim League
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May I add my welcome, Your Excellency,
and that of my leader, Mr Jinnah
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Thank you very much.
I look forward to meeting him.
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00:23:15,550 --> 00:23:18,450
Welcome to India, Your Excellency.
It's a pleasure to be here.
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Welcome to India, Your Excellency.
Thank you.
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00:26:42,130 --> 00:26:44,910
Good morning, Ronnie, Alan.
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00:26:45,380 --> 00:26:49,000
(Campbell-Johnson) Morning sir.
(Brockman) Early start sir.
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00:26:49,030 --> 00:26:51,990
Yes. I've just got this
report from Bengal.
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In the 3 days following
Jinnah's Muslim day of action
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6000 people were
killed in Calcutta alone...
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00:26:57,270 --> 00:27:00,370
and a further
20,000 seriously injured.
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00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,910
(Campbell-Johnson) Appalling!
And it's still going on.
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00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:06,310
I want daily summaries from the
military commanders of all provinces
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00:27:06,340 --> 00:27:09,470
and immediate notification
of any new incidents.
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00:27:09,500 --> 00:27:11,350
I'll pass it on sir.
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00:27:11,380 --> 00:27:14,520
I want a review of the
public health situation,
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00:27:14,550 --> 00:27:17,060
rail transport,
and food distribution.
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00:27:17,090 --> 00:27:18,620
Yes sir.
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00:27:18,650 --> 00:27:20,940
There's been a good response from
the Indian leaders to your invitation
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00:27:20,970 --> 00:27:23,060
to talk, sir.
Nehru's accepted already.
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00:27:23,090 --> 00:27:25,310
Good. I think I can
communicate with him.
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00:27:25,340 --> 00:27:27,300
You'll want press coverage?
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00:27:27,330 --> 00:27:30,150
Well, I certainly don't
want it kept quiet.
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00:27:30,180 --> 00:27:33,600
Would you see these are typed and
sent off right away, please Ronnie?
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00:27:33,630 --> 00:27:35,470
(Brockman) Right sir.
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00:27:35,500 --> 00:27:39,460
These are the press arrangements
for the swearing-in ceremony.
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00:27:39,490 --> 00:27:43,010
Quite a few raised eyebrows though,
ceremony's never been filmed before.
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00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:46,440
Dinosaur thinking. There's going
to be a record of it this time.
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00:27:46,470 --> 00:27:50,470
I'm not only the new Viceroy...
with any luck, I'll be the last.
340
00:27:54,210 --> 00:27:58,840
Just between us Alan,
as this ceremony comes closer
341
00:27:58,870 --> 00:28:03,260
I confess I feel ...
not exactly nervous...
342
00:28:03,290 --> 00:28:08,440
...rather more aware...
...more tightly strung.
343
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,570
I'm glad I'll have
Edwina with me.
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00:28:12,910 --> 00:28:15,520
Oh! Have you
seen the headline in
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00:28:15,550 --> 00:28:18,380
today's 'Dawn' the
Muslim League paper?
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00:28:18,410 --> 00:28:23,720
Lord and Lady Louis arrive.
It's a nice picture.
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00:28:25,650 --> 00:28:29,390
But it's not you! It's Ronnie
Brockman and Elizabeth Ward
348
00:28:29,420 --> 00:28:32,530
That's right.
Well, perhaps after tomorrow
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00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,340
they'll know who
the Mountbattens are.
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00:28:35,370 --> 00:28:38,200
Well. Thank you.
351
00:28:40,050 --> 00:28:42,370
Thank you.
352
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:45,780
Thank you.
353
00:28:47,810 --> 00:28:51,170
If you'll excuse me,
I think I'll take a bath.
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00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,470
I think I can
manage by myself.
355
00:29:02,500 --> 00:29:05,730
Right, you can go now.
You may go. Thank you.
356
00:29:06,230 --> 00:29:08,340
Thank you.
357
00:29:08,870 --> 00:29:13,230
No, you may go.
Thank you. My chicken.
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00:29:15,900 --> 00:29:18,760
Bye
359
00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:30,510
Edwina!
Hello!
360
00:29:31,140 --> 00:29:34,090
Edwina. Are you in there?
361
00:29:34,710 --> 00:29:38,240
Good grief ... you all right?
Couldn't be better.
362
00:29:38,270 --> 00:29:40,970
What do you think of our new home?
Fairly modest, wouldn't you say?
363
00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:44,560
Be it ever so humble,
there's no place like home.
364
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:49,060
I thought you might like to
see this ... Wavell left it for me.
365
00:29:50,220 --> 00:29:53,360
Operation ... Madhouse.
366
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:56,390
It's an apt description.
367
00:29:56,420 --> 00:29:58,650
The endless negotiations
nearly exhausted him.
368
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,900
Finally, he lost patience...
and this is what's left.
369
00:30:02,930 --> 00:30:04,850
So, what is it?
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00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,050
A plan for the British
evacuation of India.
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00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:10,460
City by city,
province by province
372
00:30:10,490 --> 00:30:12,720
women and children first,
then civilians, and finally.
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00:30:12,750 --> 00:30:16,180
the last remaining army units
leaving the country to chaos.
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00:30:16,210 --> 00:30:18,520
But he would never
have gone through with it.
375
00:30:18,550 --> 00:30:20,260
Not unless he
was forced to.
376
00:30:20,290 --> 00:30:22,950
What are you
going to do with it?
377
00:30:22,980 --> 00:30:26,370
Shove it in the back of the safe
and hope it'll never be needed.
378
00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:30,380
That was delicious.
Actually, it was the dogs.
379
00:30:33,290 --> 00:30:36,360
Edwina. I'd like your help
to get this place reorganised.
380
00:30:36,390 --> 00:30:38,710
It all seems frightfully formal.
381
00:30:38,740 --> 00:30:41,140
Pomp and circumstance.
All these servants.
382
00:30:41,170 --> 00:30:43,230
Have to cut down
on that a touch.
383
00:30:43,260 --> 00:30:45,660
We're gonna have much more of
that, I'm afraid. I'm bringing back
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00:30:45,690 --> 00:30:47,790
all the pre-war
splendour and ceremonies.
385
00:30:47,820 --> 00:30:49,790
Now careful, Dickie.
386
00:30:49,820 --> 00:30:52,340
Your enemies already say,
that's why you took the job.
387
00:30:52,370 --> 00:30:55,310
Well, let them. I want the
people of India to know that...
388
00:30:55,340 --> 00:30:57,740
they have a real Viceroy,
who speaks for the king...
389
00:30:57,770 --> 00:31:00,050
the government,
and the British nation.
390
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,420
When we go out, we'll
go with all the flags flying...
391
00:31:03,450 --> 00:31:06,320
bands, chicken legs,
everything.
392
00:31:06,350 --> 00:31:09,070
You're a clever
old thing, aren't you?
393
00:31:41,930 --> 00:31:47,340
No Viceroy, ever had
a more beautiful consort
394
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,610
I was just thinking...
do you remember
395
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:54,340
old Lady Reading when we were
engaged, saying you were a fool
396
00:31:54,370 --> 00:31:58,090
to marry someone without
much of a career ahead of him.
397
00:31:58,120 --> 00:32:00,850
Is my hair alright?
398
00:33:51,180 --> 00:33:56,960
I, Louis Francis Albert
Victor Nicholas Mountbatten
399
00:33:57,410 --> 00:34:02,980
I, Louis Francis Albert
Victor Nicholas Mountbatten
400
00:34:03,010 --> 00:34:07,400
Swear that I will be faithful
and bear true allegiance...
401
00:34:07,430 --> 00:34:11,700
to His Majesty,
King George VI, Emperor of India
402
00:34:11,730 --> 00:34:14,310
his heirs and successors.
403
00:34:14,340 --> 00:34:17,900
Swear that I will be faithful
and bear true allegiance...
404
00:34:17,930 --> 00:34:21,550
to His Majesty,
King George VI, Emperor of India
405
00:34:21,580 --> 00:34:24,070
his heirs and successors.
406
00:34:24,100 --> 00:34:30,350
according to the law,
so help me God.
407
00:34:35,430 --> 00:34:40,330
Although, I believe it is not usual
I should like to say a few words
408
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,550
...to you
... and to India.
409
00:34:44,580 --> 00:34:49,570
This is not a normal Viceroyalty
on which I am embarking.
410
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,730
His Majesty's government
is determined...
411
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,390
to transfer power
by June 1948.
412
00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:03,360
This means that a
solution must be reached...
413
00:35:03,390 --> 00:35:06,780
within the next few months.
414
00:35:07,860 --> 00:35:11,900
In the meantime,
every one of us...
415
00:35:11,930 --> 00:35:18,480
must do what he can to
avoid any word or action,
416
00:35:18,510 --> 00:35:21,460
which might lead
to further bitterness...
417
00:35:21,490 --> 00:35:26,140
...or add to the toll...
...of innocent victims.
418
00:35:27,790 --> 00:35:34,240
I am under no illusion as
to the difficulty of my task.
419
00:35:34,950 --> 00:35:41,520
I shall need the greatest goodwill
of the greatest possible number,
420
00:35:42,110 --> 00:35:48,590
and I am asking India, today,
for that goodwill.
421
00:36:05,350 --> 00:36:08,560
Thank you. Yes.
I felt it went pretty well myself.
422
00:36:08,590 --> 00:36:12,140
When you started your speech you
could have heard a popadom drop.
423
00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:15,200
Well, it certainly
got the ball rolling.
424
00:36:15,230 --> 00:36:19,230
I'm seeing Nehru this afternoon.
What's his background, Sir Eric?
425
00:36:19,260 --> 00:36:22,000
Kashmiri Brahmin family.
426
00:36:22,030 --> 00:36:24,920
His father, a very
distinguished barrister...
427
00:36:24,950 --> 00:36:27,900
sent him to England to
complete his education.
428
00:36:27,930 --> 00:36:30,620
Spent seven years at
Harrow and Cambridge...
429
00:36:30,650 --> 00:36:33,030
then at the Inns of Court,
studying law.
430
00:36:34,040 --> 00:36:37,840
He came back here a
thoroughly Anglicized young lawyer,
431
00:36:37,870 --> 00:36:42,280
and apparently went through a painful
process of trying to be an Indian again.
432
00:36:42,310 --> 00:36:44,990
You see, the
British sahib here...
433
00:36:45,020 --> 00:36:47,720
didn't accept him like
his friends in London.
434
00:36:47,750 --> 00:36:50,070
Then he came under
the influence of Gandhi...
435
00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:52,440
and joined the
Congress Party.
436
00:36:52,670 --> 00:36:55,960
He soon became one of its
leaders, and the authorities,
437
00:36:55,990 --> 00:36:59,450
as was their wont...
kept sending him to jail...
438
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,670
which naturally
increased his popularity.
439
00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:05,920
But he doesn't seem
to bear us a grudge.
440
00:37:05,950 --> 00:37:10,290
He's shrewd...
balanced ... charming.
441
00:37:10,320 --> 00:37:14,620
And underneath it all
...hard as nails.
442
00:37:18,990 --> 00:37:22,030
Mr Nehru, Your Excellency.
443
00:37:25,290 --> 00:37:27,250
How nice to see
you, Mr Nehru.
444
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,610
I was delighted by the
invitation, Your Excellencies,
445
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,730
especially on such
a historic day.
446
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,030
Oh please, no more
standing on ceremony...
447
00:37:35,060 --> 00:37:38,010
we had enough of it this morning.
Do please sit down.
448
00:37:38,040 --> 00:37:40,560
Thank you.
449
00:37:40,830 --> 00:37:44,050
It seemed to go
very well, this morning.
450
00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:48,560
May I compliment Your Excellency
on your unexpected speech.
451
00:37:48,590 --> 00:37:52,680
I felt it was needed.
It was very effective.
452
00:37:53,450 --> 00:37:57,650
It also sounded as if you had the
authority to make your own decisions.
453
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,950
Have you by any chance been
granted plenipotentiary powers?
454
00:38:01,980 --> 00:38:03,680
What if I have?
455
00:38:03,710 --> 00:38:06,630
But in that case,
you will succeed.
456
00:38:07,660 --> 00:38:10,410
You're very gracious.
457
00:38:11,270 --> 00:38:15,280
At a difficult time like this,
I am surprised...
458
00:38:15,310 --> 00:38:19,060
that Mr Gandhi is not
here, in the capital.
459
00:38:19,090 --> 00:38:24,580
He considers his crusade to stop
bloodshed in the Bihar villages
460
00:38:24,610 --> 00:38:27,190
... more urgent.
461
00:38:27,220 --> 00:38:32,090
But in any case...
wherever Mahatma Gandhi is...
462
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:35,510
...that is the capital of India.
463
00:38:42,220 --> 00:38:45,150
We want you Muslims
out of this village.
464
00:38:45,180 --> 00:38:47,770
What right have you to
choose for us where to live.
465
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,170
Go and live
with your own kind.
466
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:53,000
This is our village,
we have always lived here.
467
00:38:53,030 --> 00:38:55,530
We are telling you,
to get out.
468
00:38:58,460 --> 00:39:00,460
My children ... please enough!
469
00:39:00,490 --> 00:39:03,950
When you shout, you
only hear your own voice.
470
00:39:03,980 --> 00:39:06,640
We are afraid, Gandhiji.
471
00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:10,420
Hindus have been attacked
in the villages round us.
472
00:39:10,450 --> 00:39:12,440
Their houses burnt down.
473
00:39:12,470 --> 00:39:16,670
And now, you wish to drive
out your Muslim neighbours?
474
00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:19,540
We must protect ourselves.
475
00:39:19,570 --> 00:39:24,590
Don't you see, that by turning against
them just because they are Muslim
476
00:39:24,620 --> 00:39:29,120
you are committing the
same crime, the same evil.
477
00:39:29,150 --> 00:39:32,820
Hindus and Muslims have
lived together in peace...
478
00:39:32,850 --> 00:39:35,910
in our villages for centuries.
479
00:39:35,940 --> 00:39:38,720
This hatred is not natural.
480
00:39:38,750 --> 00:39:42,730
It is caused by politics,
not by religion.
481
00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:46,300
These Hindus will
never learn, Gandhiji.
482
00:39:46,330 --> 00:39:50,720
They live and die in superstition
worshiping their cows,
483
00:39:50,750 --> 00:39:54,800
which go about the place
trampling and eating the new crops.
484
00:39:54,830 --> 00:39:57,230
So you feel free
and beat the cow.
485
00:39:57,260 --> 00:39:59,690
No, I never did.
486
00:40:04,090 --> 00:40:07,100
I just pushed her
out of the field.
487
00:40:07,230 --> 00:40:11,530
The cow is not
only the giver of life...
488
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:16,320
of milk, and fuel for
heat made from her dung.
489
00:40:16,350 --> 00:40:20,870
She is a symbol
of abundance...
490
00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:25,890
and of non-violence...
...a symbol of India.
491
00:40:26,490 --> 00:40:31,760
My children... I do not expect
you to agree on everything...
492
00:40:31,790 --> 00:40:36,880
only to agree to settle your
differences without violence.
493
00:40:36,910 --> 00:40:40,020
Stay with us Bapu
... teach us.
494
00:40:43,530 --> 00:40:46,180
Pray with us Bapu.
495
00:40:47,930 --> 00:40:50,790
I'm sorry my children, I cannot.
496
00:40:50,820 --> 00:40:55,750
I have many more miles
to cover before nightfall.
497
00:40:56,220 --> 00:41:03,890
But, I will take a meal with you...
if you agree to eat together.
498
00:41:13,460 --> 00:41:18,390
Good ... and I will teach
you a prayer to God...
499
00:41:18,420 --> 00:41:22,920
which all of you may
say when there is need.
500
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:29,700
Hai, Rama,
King of the Universe...
501
00:41:29,730 --> 00:41:32,790
who makes the sinner pure...
502
00:41:32,820 --> 00:41:36,270
who is both Ishvar and Allah...
503
00:41:36,300 --> 00:41:39,680
who gives his blessing to all.
504
00:42:17,870 --> 00:42:21,170
I told you so. I thought I might
find you lot near the drinks.
505
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,110
Ah! Thank you.
506
00:42:23,140 --> 00:42:26,140
(V.P. Menon)
A very significant occasion,
Your Excellency.
507
00:42:26,170 --> 00:42:28,450
First party at Viceroy's
House to which
508
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,050
a real cross-section of
Indians have been invited.
509
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,630
I must admit, it seems
to have gone splendidly.
510
00:42:33,660 --> 00:42:35,630
You have Indian friends,
surely George.
511
00:42:35,660 --> 00:42:39,180
Yes, of course, and we always
invite them, but that's in private.
512
00:42:39,210 --> 00:42:41,670
Here at Viceroy's house,
it's been customary only to...
513
00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:43,950
invite officials of
the highest rank.
514
00:42:43,980 --> 00:42:45,950
If we'd done this sort
of thing years ago...
515
00:42:45,980 --> 00:42:48,030
maybe we wouldn't be
in the mess we are now.
516
00:42:48,060 --> 00:42:51,390
At last, I feel I've
made some friendly contact.
517
00:42:51,420 --> 00:42:54,580
How did the English
ladies in India bare ???...
518
00:42:54,610 --> 00:42:57,990
Not all were totally isolated,
Your Excellency...
519
00:42:58,020 --> 00:43:00,860
though most would seem
to prefer it that way.
520
00:43:00,890 --> 00:43:02,190
They don't know
what they're missing.
521
00:43:02,220 --> 00:43:05,660
I was enjoying it so much,
I'm sorry it's over.
522
00:43:05,690 --> 00:43:08,220
Same here, darling,
just getting in the mood.
523
00:43:08,250 --> 00:43:10,300
Why don't we
go out somewhere.
524
00:43:10,330 --> 00:43:13,930
Well, didn't you say Nehru was
giving an at home tonight, V.P.?
525
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,250
Why don't we drop by?
Would you like that?
526
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,820
Very much.
No I'm afraid...er...
527
00:43:18,850 --> 00:43:21,080
It is out of the question,
Your Excellency.
528
00:43:21,110 --> 00:43:24,180
It's a matter of protocol you see.
It has to be an official invitation...
529
00:43:24,210 --> 00:43:27,440
arrangements, security check.
Oh no, none of that.
530
00:43:27,470 --> 00:43:29,670
I thought we'd just jump
in the car and drive over.
531
00:43:29,700 --> 00:43:33,120
But, it's just not done.
Well, so let's do it.
532
00:43:57,720 --> 00:44:01,190
Hello. We heard you
were giving a party.
533
00:44:01,220 --> 00:44:03,450
We hope you don't
mind our dropping by.
534
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,090
Not at all.
It is a delightful surprise.
535
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,290
May I introduce my sister,
Nan Vijayalakshmi
536
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:11,420
Pleasure.
How do you do.
537
00:44:11,450 --> 00:44:13,510
And my daughter, Indira.
538
00:44:13,540 --> 00:44:15,690
We welcome you, Your Excellencies.
How do you do.
539
00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:17,400
What a pleasure.
540
00:44:17,430 --> 00:44:19,510
You were at Oxford, weren't you?
Yes I was.
541
00:44:19,540 --> 00:44:21,890
During the war,
in the air raids of London...
542
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,150
she went fire fighting
at Piccadilly Circus.
543
00:44:25,180 --> 00:44:27,150
Ah well, that
makes two of us.
544
00:44:27,180 --> 00:44:31,150
Good for you. Let me
introduce my daughter Pamela,
545
00:44:31,180 --> 00:44:35,680
and this is Miss Ward,
and Mr Campbell-Johnson.
546
00:44:36,110 --> 00:44:38,630
Your Excellency,
many of my friends...
547
00:44:38,660 --> 00:44:42,470
will be longing to meet you.
Please excuse me.
548
00:44:44,030 --> 00:44:47,140
May I present
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad...
549
00:44:47,170 --> 00:44:49,750
until recently president
of the Congress Party.
550
00:44:49,780 --> 00:44:53,560
Ah yes, Lord Wavell spoke
very highly of you Mr Azad.
551
00:44:53,590 --> 00:44:56,490
I'd love to have a talk soon.
It will be an honour sir.
552
00:44:56,520 --> 00:45:01,180
Now forgive me, but what was it
Mr Nehru called you ... Nan...?
553
00:45:01,210 --> 00:45:04,790
In the family, but my
first name is Swarup.
554
00:45:04,820 --> 00:45:09,280
No ... something else.
Ah yes. Vijayalakshmi ... you see
555
00:45:09,310 --> 00:45:12,890
when a Kashmiri woman gets
married she gets a new first name.
556
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,010
So now, I'm
Vijayalakshmi Pandit.
557
00:45:16,810 --> 00:45:19,990
Vijayalakshmi Pandit.
Very good.
558
00:45:20,020 --> 00:45:22,480
I hope we can have
another talk, quite soon.
559
00:45:22,510 --> 00:45:26,140
Your Excellency, I am
prepared to discuss anything,
560
00:45:26,170 --> 00:45:30,310
...but please understand...
I will only discuss independence
561
00:45:30,340 --> 00:45:34,110
in terms of all India...
...a united India.
562
00:45:34,140 --> 00:45:37,010
Well, the division of the country
has formed no part of my talks
563
00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,880
with His Majesty's government.
I can assure you of that.
564
00:45:39,910 --> 00:45:42,550
I'm relieved to hear it.
565
00:45:42,580 --> 00:45:47,530
But, it is true that the growing
violence is of equal importance.
566
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:51,120
It is criminal of the Moslem League
to stir up religious hatred
567
00:45:51,150 --> 00:45:53,980
deliberately,
for political purposes.
568
00:45:54,010 --> 00:45:58,170
And, when I say the League...
I mean of course Jinnah.
569
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:00,740
Without him it is nothing.
570
00:46:00,770 --> 00:46:05,350
I gather you find it difficult to work
together in the interim government.
571
00:46:05,380 --> 00:46:08,490
He refused to join it.
Instead, he manipulates
572
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:11,210
the League members
in it, to sabotage it.
573
00:46:11,240 --> 00:46:14,700
It may seem to him, the only way
he's going to achieve anything,
574
00:46:14,730 --> 00:46:19,010
since he's already outvoted
in the cabinet by 2 to 1.
575
00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:25,080
Perhaps we should
join the ladies.
576
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:42,180
I'm very glad
you can see this.
577
00:46:42,210 --> 00:46:47,130
It is a special dance
from North India ... a Kathak.
578
00:49:11,620 --> 00:49:14,880
Those Muslims.
579
00:49:14,910 --> 00:49:18,000
They've done it.
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