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Show West Europe Nations Need Unity, 'Monty' Declares served as British forces commander command-er la Europe. "I am devoted to Ike," he said. The peoples of western Europe must be protected against invasion, in-vasion, not just told they will be rescued after It," Montgomery told his f ormally-ettlred audience from a platform decorated with huge American and British flags. "The point that Is fundamental is that to promise to rescue the west in due course after a successful suc-cessful Invasion from the east la quite useless. If the west Is overrun over-run again, that is the end of the people who live there . . . the end of western civilisation and the end of a good many other things, too." NEW TORK. Nov. SO (UP) The western democracies face the choice of uniting or seeing the end of western civilization. Field Marshal Mar-shal Viscount Montgomery said In the moat important speech of his current American visit. "Monty," most colorful of Britain's Brit-ain's wartime heroes, spoke Tuesday Tues-day night as commander In chief of the western union at the annual dinner of the English-speaking union of the U. 8. He received a one-minute standing ovation at the end of his address in which he dedicated himself as an "International "Inter-national servant" to" the protection of the "peoples of western Europe." Eu-rope." The dinner guests also applauded ap-plauded loudly when Montgomery, dressed in a formal blue uniform with colorful rows of military decorations, praised Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, under whom he |