LONDON: A question mark has been put in a London tribunal on the impartiality of Lord Mountbatten and whether he sought to interfere in the border drawn between India and India. Pakistan on division.
The allegations were made during a first-level tribunal (right to information) hearing on whether all personal diaries and correspondence of Lord and Lady Mountbatten held by the University of Southampton within the Broadlands Archives should be made public.
Clara Hammer, representing the British author Andrew Looney, who wrote a book on mountbatten and is seeking full disclosure of Mountbatten’s papers, told the Tribunal that on July 12, 1947, Lord Mountbatten’s diary entry shows that he had dinner with British Judge Sir Cyril. radcliffeChristopher Beaumont, chairman of the Boundary Commission and its secretary, but from the next day his diary entry has been modified on the grounds that it may adversely affect Britain’s relations with India and Pakistan.
Hammer said: “The issue of whether Mountbatten was impartial and the fact that he had met with Radcliffe and Beaumont on that date is important because this was a time when he should not have approached them and it is evidence of that.” May be the lack of objectivity by Lord Mountbatten. I would like to ask that what has been amended on July 13, 1947, relates to dinner and has to do with the creation of the border with Pakistan. And, if so So there is a very strong public interest in complete transparency on that issue.”
Hammer also questioned why Mountbatten’s diary entry from 6 August 1947, a week before independence, had been modified. “It will be of particular public interest and importance to historians wishing to understand the events of the time of independence,” she said. She said Looney had made an educated guess that it was a meeting of the Joint Defense Council, which Mountbatten would attend.
On Wednesday, Professor Chris Woolger, a retired archivist and curator at the University of Southampton Library, defended his decision to alert the Cabinet Office to “highly sensitive” material within the Mountbatten Papers that were about the royal family or India and Pakistan. were related to. which he saw after receiving them, because of which they were closed.
The tribunal heard that the Cabinet Office responded to his email within three hours that some files should be closed, saying, “Material relating to India and Pakistan is particularly sensitive from this period.”
The Broadlands Archive, composed of 4,500 boxes, including 47 volumes of Lord Mountbatten’s diary and 36 volumes of Lady Mountbatten’s diary, was held near Broadlands House, the Mountbatten family estate. romsey, and was transferred to the university in more than eight lorries between 1980 and 2010. In 2011, the university purchased the Broadlands Archive from the trustees using several million pounds of public money.
Lonnie is also seeking to disclose the correspondence between Lady Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru, which is also in storage in Southampton, but Southampton says it does not own it and is merely storing it, even though it has Have the option of buying them.
The allegations were made during a first-level tribunal (right to information) hearing on whether all personal diaries and correspondence of Lord and Lady Mountbatten held by the University of Southampton within the Broadlands Archives should be made public.
Clara Hammer, representing the British author Andrew Looney, who wrote a book on mountbatten and is seeking full disclosure of Mountbatten’s papers, told the Tribunal that on July 12, 1947, Lord Mountbatten’s diary entry shows that he had dinner with British Judge Sir Cyril. radcliffeChristopher Beaumont, chairman of the Boundary Commission and its secretary, but from the next day his diary entry has been modified on the grounds that it may adversely affect Britain’s relations with India and Pakistan.
Hammer said: “The issue of whether Mountbatten was impartial and the fact that he had met with Radcliffe and Beaumont on that date is important because this was a time when he should not have approached them and it is evidence of that.” May be the lack of objectivity by Lord Mountbatten. I would like to ask that what has been amended on July 13, 1947, relates to dinner and has to do with the creation of the border with Pakistan. And, if so So there is a very strong public interest in complete transparency on that issue.”
Hammer also questioned why Mountbatten’s diary entry from 6 August 1947, a week before independence, had been modified. “It will be of particular public interest and importance to historians wishing to understand the events of the time of independence,” she said. She said Looney had made an educated guess that it was a meeting of the Joint Defense Council, which Mountbatten would attend.
On Wednesday, Professor Chris Woolger, a retired archivist and curator at the University of Southampton Library, defended his decision to alert the Cabinet Office to “highly sensitive” material within the Mountbatten Papers that were about the royal family or India and Pakistan. were related to. which he saw after receiving them, because of which they were closed.
The tribunal heard that the Cabinet Office responded to his email within three hours that some files should be closed, saying, “Material relating to India and Pakistan is particularly sensitive from this period.”
The Broadlands Archive, composed of 4,500 boxes, including 47 volumes of Lord Mountbatten’s diary and 36 volumes of Lady Mountbatten’s diary, was held near Broadlands House, the Mountbatten family estate. romsey, and was transferred to the university in more than eight lorries between 1980 and 2010. In 2011, the university purchased the Broadlands Archive from the trustees using several million pounds of public money.
Lonnie is also seeking to disclose the correspondence between Lady Mountbatten and Jawaharlal Nehru, which is also in storage in Southampton, but Southampton says it does not own it and is merely storing it, even though it has Have the option of buying them.
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