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AGAINST OXFORD GROUP IN REFUSAL OF WAR EXEMPTION. DISCUSSION AND REPLY IN LORDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, October 8. In the House of Lords, Lord Salisbury, referring to the non-exemption from military service of Oxford Group lay preachers, asked why the Government treated the movement differently from other religious bodies. He said 400 lay evangelists in other organisations had been reserved. Lord Elton said he was not a member of the Oxford Group, but the movement was doing far more to bring religion to the people than many ministers of established churches.
Lord Moyne, replying on behalf of the Government, said there had been no differential treatment and no selective persecution of this or any other religious body. Thirty-two other religious organisations had failed to establish' claims to exemption.- He thought the agitation about these eleven men was really out of proportion to the importance of their cases compared with the general volume of cases that had come .forward.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 October 1941, Page 6
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