MONTGOMERY’S EARLY LIFE
“Boyhood Davs Not Very Happy” (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON. September 25. Field-Mar«hal Viseount Montgomery said tonight that hi* early day* were "not very happy." The 70-year-old soldier, who retired recently as Deputy-Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, was explaining to reporter* how he came to write his memoir*. “I think you will be astonished when you read the story of my early life (spent partly in Tasmania). You will find my very early boyhood days were not very happy, which is probably the reason why today I am very interested in young people. you get more and more up in rank you must have more time for thinking,” Lord Montgomery said.
“I believe today our world political leaders who handle our affairs do not have time to think. “For that reason. I isolated myself and lived forward in tactical quarters to which no-one could get unless they were pretty big.” In war, he commented, one must always think ahead. It was said of him that he was very cautious, but he thought that a man’s Ufe was very precious, he said.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28702, 27 September 1958, Page 13
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