War hero favours canings for bad boys in school

“A good beating with a cane can have a remarkable sense of awakening on the mind and conscience of a bad boy,” hero of the Second World War Field Marshal Montgomery told an audience in 1954. “I was well beaten myself and am the better for it.”

 This newspaper writer was far from impressed …

As published in the Sidney Daily News (Sidney, Ohio, US), 7 December 1954.

Picture credit: Unknown.

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