It was the unenviable task of the English lawyer, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, to carve out the new frontiers of India and Pakistan. In a matter of weeks, he got to decide, with a few strokes of his pen, the destiny of some 400m people: his work casts a long shadow to this day. Deed done, Radcliffe burnt his papers and departed, never to return. WH Auden, in his poem, “Partition”, is scornful: “The next day he sailed for England, where he could quickly forget/The case, as a good lawyer must.”
西里尔•拉德克利夫爵士(Sir Cyril Radcliffe)的差事不值得羡慕，他要划分印度和巴基斯坦的新国界线。在几周之内，他要用寥寥数笔决定大约4亿人的命运：他的工作给今天投下了长长的阴影。做完这件事以后，拉德克利夫烧掉他的底稿，然后离开，永远没有再回来。奥登(WH Auden)在他的诗作《分治》(Partition)中轻蔑地写道：“第二天他坐船前往英格兰，在那里他会迅速忘掉/这件案子，就如一个好律师必须做的。”
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