COMPULSION IN FRANCE
EDUCATION AND MILITARY SERVICE
Speaking on liberty as understood in France, Mr. Percy Philip remarked in a recent broadcast debate that “the only compulsions that the French citizen must accept are compulsory education and compulsory military service. We British have adopted the former, but abjured the latter. Among Frenchmen, however, the conception of the citizen army, which began with the Revolution, is fundamentally just as calling for equality of sacrifice, and lying at the very foundation of national liberty by assuring national independence. Remember, too,” Mr. Philip added, “that every Frenchman, whatever his social rank and fortune, must don the blue uniform of the private soldier and do his two years of service. Perhaps that is what has developed that sense of equality and fraternity which distinguishes the French from most other peoples.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 3
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