NO REDUCTIONS YET
BRITISH TROOPS ABROAD
PEACE TREATIES FIRST
LONDON. Dec. 8.
Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, who is visiting the British zone of Austria, told senior staff officers that there could not be a large-scale speed-up in demobilisation or reduction of British military commitments overseas until the peace treaties were signed, says Reuter's correspondent in Klagenfurl, Field Marshal Montgomery added that Britain must never again be caught unprepared. The Cabinet, in making the conscription decision, believed that national morale would benefit by young men serving IB months in the forces.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22200, 10 December 1946, Page 3
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