"MONTY'S" UNDERWEAR
"I have just come up from the youth Island — they call it the mainland down there," compiented Lord Montgomery during the -course of a speecli at the civic and seryices reception yeSterday. "It was very cold down there. ,1 caught the inother -and fatlier of a cold. I don't know What I would have done if some very kin'd people had not given me some warm underwear — yes. pink underwear," added the Field Marshal, amid laughter. He pointed to a New Zealand issue jersey he was* wearing. "T wore one ii) the desert, and I was wearing "a New Zealand sweater on Luneberg Heath the day 1 aceepted tlie surrender of 2,000,000 Germans, and that's iiQt bad> is it?" he said.
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Chronicle (Levin), 26 July 1947, Page 6
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