WHY MONTGOMERY IS AN ABSTAINER

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 2, 1 March 1948, Page 5

WHY MONTGOMERY IS AN ABSTAINER

the An. mm. . will letnein •hat The Mail." July ; , KM laide) published a statement from a men that the famous Field Marshal's M onl) liqui -r 'did not like the tast< liqm hi its m "'The ntcd OUt how improbn was that a man w declared by the ikish r itn his brother ion to

The Key to "Monty'*'* Character Man Mo in hit Moi urn this sound principle "To understand I mer) in mind I I wing qu at furnish the data that will help us to land his rivml sbst in the most his adult 1.

H;s father, neither smoked n- r drank ' '7 )

wine was drunk in that ho II.)

"He s n tin pled Irinking 1 | This ngthens i i iction Monty's abstinent < was tin n unit pendent thinking, phis ins home ' "In Ireland no I liquor • threshold Mont(p 41 ) " v th< ' 21, when Bernard Vfontg mi i ;, Sandhurst Military i had yet to I his first whisk) and a da and he dsd not saa In India nk a sbi port sfter dinner." (p 46.) (Evidently the m" was rn • him then' Are we to conclude that later on lis "palate" turned him against liquor, or that his experi< the the morale of the arm) made him hostile to it ") "In 1011. when we find the break • nard with Ins childhc* d was now ah he can more Strongly 'an c\er under the spell of his father. The) resembled er in I mple piet) and abstemiousness " (p I'') "firuk and tobao allv ri Mil his lite when H tme" in 1930 (|< " In the light ot the above, we may onchide that the teet principles of a cultured Christian home, plus his later observations the ratting influence of drink on the army, made Montgomery a rigid ner.