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Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Editorial Director, Burke's Peerage Ltd. London
BURKE'S PRESIDENTIAL FAMILIES OF THE UNITED STATES Edited by HUGH MONTGOMERY- MASSINGBERD 676 pages. Arco...
American aristocracy! Simple contradiction in terms. The Memsahib's got a Yankee cousin. Know what his idea of ancient history is? Spiro Agnew. Still, if one's got to deal with foreigners, trust Burke's to do a wizard job. Here: watch Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd, editorial director, in the introduction. First he dismisses those with no interest in genealogy as "the real snobs . . . secretly afraid of what they might find." Smashing reverse English, what? When the reader is on the defensive, the director presses home: "The only reason the undersigned can establish the identity of his earliest...
After the first World War, says Liddell Hart, the best younger brains of the Army saw that machines would dominate future wars. But tenaciously conservative elder officers held to antique ways of foot and horse. In 1934 Chief of Imperial General Staff General Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd declared: "It is certain that if we do not go slowly with mechanization we shall land ourselves in difficulties...
...British Naval Staff is Admiral Sir Alfred Ernie Montacute Chatfield. He stayed at home last week. Britain's Army had last week a new Chief of the Imperial General Staff in handsome, close-mouthed General Sir Cyril John Deverell, who lately succeeded Field Marshal Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd. So far as the public knew, General Deverell took no part in the conference. Neither did Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Emile Van Den Berghe of Belgium, nor Chief of Staff Marie Gustave Gamelin of France...