Montgomery’s Call To Fight Moral & Economic Peril
(10 a.m.) LONDON, Oct, 21. “Britain is confronted with moral and economic dangers that threaten her existence as seriously as did Napoleon or Hitler,” Field Marshal ' Viscount Montgomery told 7000 desert war veterans at the fourth El Alamein reunion in Empress Hall, London, last night.
“At Trafalgar, at Dunkirk and at El Alamein,the enemy was plain and clear.
“Today we are confronted with a more insidious foe —the weakness with-
in ourselves from which alone great nations fall.
“Freedom is no perpetual gift- It remains the privilege of those who are prepared to fight for it and, by their virtues, deserve it. “Our greatest internal danger is that we may devalue ourselves by submitting to conditions and imposition around us by accepting lower standards of utility and austerity as the goal.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23083, 22 October 1949, Page 5
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