PLANS FOR EMPIRE-WIDE TOUR ANNOUNCED

Chronicle (Levin), 7 August 1946, Page 5

PLANS FOR EMPIRE-WIDE TOUR ANNOUNCED

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Received Wednesday, 10.50 a.m. « LONDON, August 6. Revealing plans for an Empire-wide tour beginning on August 19 and lasting until the end of 1947, Field Marshal Lord Montgomery said at a Press conference today that he would visit Australia and New Zealand in July of next year.

Referring to next week's conference with 180 Empire generals, i -ard Montgomery said it was plan- ! " ned to hold similar conferences every six months to study all thej problems of war of the future. The | first would deal with offensive war and the others with defensive war overseas and other military operations. Lord Montgomery said that he was never a "desk qreneral," and did not ■ intend to be one now. He planned to spend two months i abroad and a month in London, , and then to reverse the process. He was leaving for Canada on August 19 for a fortnight, and would then i

f visit General Eisenhower to see ! American military establishments j with him. He intended to visit Egypt and Palestine in December, and then go to India and I Malaya. Next March he would visit Egypt, the Suaan, East Africa and India, and then Australia and New Zealand in July and West Africa and South Africa in December. Lord Montgomery added that it was not feasible to carry out the training of a postwar army in the Dominions and elsewhere. Training in wartime had to be carried out in England, and peacetime training facilities must be based on wartime needs.