TALKS WITH MACMILLAN
Montgomery’s Moscow Visit
(Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, April 8. Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery today called on the Prime Minister (Mr Macmillan) to discuss his forthcoming visit to Moscow for talks with the Soviet Prime Minister (Mr Khrushchev) and Soviet military leaders on East-West issues. The British Government has strongly emphasised that Lord Montgomery will go to Moscow on April 28 purely in his private capacity without any official authority to negotiate. The Foreign Secretary (Mr Selwyn Lloyd) has told reporters that Lord Montgomery was going to Moscow on his own responsibility. The Providence, Rhode Island, “Journal” took a pessimistic view today of Lord Montgomery’s impending visit to Moscow. “Field-Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery is a sort of international Typhoid Mary,” the newspaper said in a leading article. “In whatever country he visits, he manages to leave trouble, outraged feelings and bitter recriminations, which usually require all the skill and finesse of British diplomacy to explain away. “For a man so accident-prone with his lip, Viscount Montgomery has a singular incapacity to keep his mouth shut,” it said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28866, 10 April 1959, Page 11
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