World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF ASIA: Lord Louis in to Bat

For the biggest present vacancy in United Nations Commands—the much-talked-about Southeast Asia Command—Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt last week picked much-publicized Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas ("Dickie") Mountbatten.

Lord Louis, 43-year-old, 6-ft.-4-in. second cousin to King George VI, is best known as the Chief of Britain's savage, knife-wielding Commandomen. His title, heretofore: Chief of Combined Operations. As such he directed numberless hit-&-run raids against the coast of Hitler's Europe.

Fun Behind. Lord Louis was a lowly sublieutenant when World War I ended. Between wars he advanced to the rank of...