UNIQUE NOTIONS
BRITAIN AND CONSCRIPTION. How can we British boast of maintaining our peculiar system of patchwork liability when, if it were not for general conscription abroad among 20 friendly nations, we could not hope for a moment to be exempt from it ourselves? asks Mr J. L. Garvin, writing in the London “Observer.” Are they not curious democrats who extol the full strength of freedom in arms in every country but their own? Our unique notions about the right not to serve and the advisability of not training the bulk of our manhood for the business of life and death which they, like others, may have to face—all this is not democratic. It has nothing to do with liberty. It has become a danger to our own and other liberties because it is a standing temptation to aggressors who would not dream of war if Britain had larger military strength based on general manhood training and ready at the outset.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 6
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161UNIQUE NOTIONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 6
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