People: People, Oct. 15, 1945

Two Other Fellows

Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, according to a now-it-can-be-told story, bamboozled Axis spies with a double, Lieut. Clifton James, peacetime actor. The double made a noisy departure for Africa, got a big official welcome in Algiers, set the spies to reporting the Marshal's absence from his invasion base just before Dday.

Lord Keynes, adviser to the British Treasury, now in Washington on business (TIME, Oct. 8) wrote to London's New Statesman and Nation to clear up two slight cases of mistaken identity: 1) because he had concluded his book...

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