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In the midst of the North African campaign General Montgomery was asked to explain, for the benefit of his soldiers, how he kept so fit for his duties. He replied, "I do not smoke, I do not drink, I go to bed at ten o'clock except when duty forbids, and I am 100 per cent fit"
Immediately thereafter Prime Minister Churchill said, for the benefit of those same soldiers, "I smoke, I drink, I never sleep, and I am 200 per cent fit." Not long afterward he was down with pneumonia. In time he was up again, but within a few months he was making a fight for his life, with all the allied world holding its breath lest he should not survive. He did, but it is reported that his doctors had forbidden all use of either tobacco or rum. From London came the report that he had admitted to his cabinet that he was ill at Teheran and unable to judge issues and facts with his usual acumen. -International Religious News Service
William Moses Tidwell, "Pointed Illustrations."
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