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Mountbatten writes to Nehru and Jinnah suggesting that findings of Boundary Commission should be discussed on 16 August between representatives of India and Pakistan before awards are published

Viceroy Mountbatten remained hesitant to publish the boundary awards given the deteriorating security situation and need for co-ordination and co-operation between India and Pakistan.

In a letter addressed to Jawaharlal Nehru, Mountbatten expressed:

It had been my intention to publish the Award in a Gazette Extraordinary as soon as it was received and the maps reproduced; but, to judge from reports I have heard and the messages I have received from leaders in both India and Pakistan, there is such apprehension about the nature of the findings that I do not feel that it should be published without an opportunity being given for a discussion of them between duly authorised representatives of India and Pakistan.

Source:  ‘Rear-Admiral Viscount Mountbatten oj Burma to Pandit Nehru’ cited in Nicholas Mansergh & Penderel Moon (eds.), Transfer of Power, vol. XII, p. 694

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