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Admiral Lord Mountbatten, former Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Operations, and Lady Edwina, were honoured on the 18th with the Freedom of Edinburgh City, and also made Honorary Doctors of Law of Edinburgh University. Sir James Miller, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, said Lord Mountbatten was one of the most colourful figures of the century. Professor M. G. Fisher, Dean, Edinburgh University's Faculty of Law, said, "Lord Mountbatten's statesmanship, and ability to get on with men of different racial outlook, overrode all difficulties when he supervised transfer of power from Britain to India. Admiral Mountbatten is famed as a fighting sailor — with the qualities of ingenuity and dislike of the orthodox, which were given full play when he was Chief of Combined Operations during World War II." The Freedom of the City was given to Lady Mountbatten for her humanitarian work and devotion to nursing and welfare services. Professor Fisher said she was the Florence Nightingale of the 20th Century.
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