Military Service In China
Sir,—Having "studied the question” myself I can sympathise with Mr P. J. Alley’s admiration for the revolutionary spirit of the workers of China. Mr Alley mentioned that there are 200 million men and women under arms in China. Regardless of whether these people are volunteers or conscripts, I would be pleased if Mr Alley could tell us if the working people of China ha e the right to refuse military service on conscientious or other grounds. Can they, in fact, become conscientious objectors? This is a sincere inquiry and I intend no rhetoric or criticism. — Yours, etc., ONE OF THE WORLD’S WORKERS.
June 2, 1968. [Mr Alley replies: "Service in the People’s Liberation Army and the People’s Militia is absolutely voluntary; hence the question of refusal of military service on conscientious or other grounds does not arise. What ‘other grounds’ could there be when everything is discussed at meetings all over the country, and the leaders carry out the will of the people? It is the people that rule. One more comment: all the people of China are workers. There are
no capitalists, and no ruthless businessmen handing out raw deals to the public. There is no ‘rat race’.”]
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19660609.2.163.10
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 16
Word count
Tapeke kupu
203Military Service In China Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31081, 9 June 1966, Page 16
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in