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A SERIES OF EIGHT EARLY POST-WAR LETTERS FROM LORD LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN TO DEMPSEY,
written in the tumultuous period before Indian independence and on headed paper from both S.E.A.C. headquarters (South East Asia Command) and Mountbatten's Broadlands estate, the letters illustrate a growing friendship between the two men and are concerned with various topics such as Dempsey succeeding Viscount Slim in the 14th Army and the wish that Dempsey should then replace Montgomery following his impending retirement as C.I.G.S., in one letter upon hearing of Dempsey's intention to leave the army Mountbatten writes, "I hope you will allow an unbiased person to tell you that your departure would be nothing short of a national disaster, as I honestly consider that you are in a class by yourself, on whom the future of the Army must, to a very large extent, ultimately depend."
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