NATIONAL SERVICE
DICTATORSHIPS’ ADVANTAGE. The dictatorships have great advantages over the democracies in the clash of power, whether that power is active or passive, says the “Round Table.” Unless the democracies prove by their efforts that a strong national defence can be built up within the frame of freedom of expression and representative government, both they and democracy will perish. Universal national service is today the most effective contribution Great Britain can make to future world peace. It cannot and will never be an instrument of aggression or a temptation to war. Its whole purpose is to make war obviously unprofitable for those Powers which most threaten the peace of the world, and thus to push war further and further into the background. Nor should it be a party issue, any more than conscription is a party issue in democratic and socialistic France. Rearmament is no longer a party issue in Great Britain, and universal science is the keystone of rearmament. In the disturbed and dangerous world we now live in, our influence for peace and justice, as well as our chance of surviving as a free commonwealth, depend on our strength, with that of our friends, against those who would assault us and our ideals.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 9
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206NATIONAL SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 9
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