Career
Montgomery and Nigel de Grey deciphered the Zimmermann Telegram, which helped bring the United States. into World War I. At this time (1917), Montgomery was 46. He was an authority on Saint Augustine, and a gifted translator of theological works from German. Number work, it was said, had ever been so idiomatically and yet so faithfully rendered as his translation of Albert Schweitzer"s Quest of the Historical Jesus, published in 1914.