“THE MONKEY”
EARLY ESTIMATE OF GENERAL MONTGOMERY.
Macdonald Hastings, in a broadcast from London the other week of his spoken “London Letter,” mentioned that he had been most amused to see a note on General Montgomery, of Eighth Army fame, written when the general was a schoolboy. His old college magazine revealed that at school General Montgomery had the nickname of “The Monkey.” And this is what one of his contemporaries wrote about him at the time:—
“The Monkey—This intelligent animal makes its nest in football fields, football vests, and other such accessible resorts. It is vicious, of unflagging energy, and much feared by its neighbouring animals owing to*its unfortunate tendency of trying to pull out the top hair of the head. “To foreign fauna it shows no mercy, stamping on their heads and twisting their necks, and doing many other inconceivable atrocities with a view, no doubt, to proving its patriotism. To hunt this animal is a dangerous undertaking. Even if caught he is not good eating.”
“It’s surprising, isn't it,” the broadcaster concluded, “how the study of the schoolboy fits in with the man. —with Rommel playing the part of the foreign fauna.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1943, Page 4
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195“THE MONKEY” Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1943, Page 4
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