{"id":13873,"date":"2016-03-30T22:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T03:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=13873"},"modified":"2016-03-30T22:00:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T03:00:53","slug":"espionage-files-ww2-british-general-bernard-law-montgomery-was-best-man-at-philbys-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/30\/espionage-files-ww2-british-general-bernard-law-montgomery-was-best-man-at-philbys-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"Espionage Files: WW2 British General Bernard Law Montgomery was Best Man at Philby&#8217;s Wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13874\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/harry_st-_john_bridger_philby.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"harry_st-_john_bridger_philby\" width=\"620\" height=\"297\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Things I didn\u2019t know: When St. John Philby got married in India in 1910, his best man was Bernard Law Montgomery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Philby marriage of course produced <em><strong>H.A.R. \u201cKim\u201d Philby<\/strong><\/em>, the greatest traitor of the 20<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>th<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">From the same book, Anthony Cave Brown\u2019s\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stewart-Menzies-Spymaster-Winston-Churchill\/dp\/0025173901\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1458678581&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=anthony+cave+brown%2C+C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s3\">biography of Sir Stewart Menzies<\/span><\/a>,<\/strong> I learned the old World War II headquarters for British intelligence stood on or near the land where there was a house in which Milton began writing \u201cParadise Lost.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2016\/03\/23\/things-i-didnt-know-montgomery-was-the-best-man-at-philbys-wedding\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things I didn\u2019t know: When St. John Philby got married in India in 1910, his best man was Bernard Law Montgomery. The Philby marriage of course produced H.A.R. \u201cKim\u201d Philby, the greatest traitor of the 20th\u00a0century. From the same book, Anthony Cave Brown\u2019s\u00a0biography of Sir Stewart Menzies, I learned the old World War II headquarters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4076,4769,2908,475,1286,1899],"tags":[10754,10755,1779,10756,10757,10758,10759,1782],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}