THE SOLDIER AS MONTY SEES HIM
.Received Wednesdav, 7.45 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 29. "All inodern science is directed towards the assistance of the soldier but it is on his efi'orts that the outcoine of a battle depends. The iuorale oi iu.. soldier is still the most important single factor in war," declared Yiseouut A1 ontgomery in a speech in London yesterday. He delined morale as that quality which makes men endure and sliow courage in tiine of fatigue and danger, and insisted that the cultivatiou of morale depends upon the training of leaders, inculcation of diseipline, encauragement ot" comradeship, and infusipn of ,,s,elf . respcct^ A Diseipline welded the army into a fighting weapon and leadership led it to victory. The leaders must believe in the cause for which they light but Iie did not believe soldiers were intlueuced by such abstraetations as freedom of empire or democracy. No nation could figlit an unpopular war. The soldier, as a citizen, m-.Mt be convinced of the rightnesss of the cause but rhetoric^! statements asserting that a soldier "must know what he figltts for and love what he knows", must not be allowed to confuse the issue. Tlie fact was that the soldier, instead of having a " fire in his belly", advanees to battle witli a very cold feelinn inside him.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 October 1946, Page 5
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