Document: Birth of the Gandhi Centenary Stamp December, 1968
Letter from John Stonehouse, Postmaster General, to George Downes, Director Operations and Overseas and Chairman of the Stamp Advisory Committee, December, 1968
Document: Birth of the Gandhi Centenary Stamp December 19, 1968
In 1969 Stonehouse, as Postmaster General, was approached by Lord Mountbatten, (known as Mountbatten of Burma at the time), about including a Gandhi birth centenary stamp in the postal program.