"CRANKS" REPLIES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 209, 17 June 1935, Page 5

"CRANKS" REPLIES.

PRINCE AND: DISCIPLINE. LABOUR LEADER'S VIEWPOINT. iCniied Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 16. "I think that the Prince of Wales, after considering the matter, will realise that there are other forms of discipline besides shouldering a musket and playing soldiers," said Mr George Lansbury (leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party), at a Labour meeting. . Mr Lansbury was referring to an address given on Thursday by the Prince at the Berkhamsted School, in the course of which he said that it was always a mystery to him how certain misguided people, whom he ventured to.describe as cranks, felt that the only way to express their abhorrence of war, which everybody felt, was by objecting to the healthy training and discipline which boys received in Officers' Training Corps at schools. Whatever careers boys entered, there must be submission to discipline, and he knew of no better way of training them than in an Omcers' Training Corps. "If the Prince introduces controversial subjects," said Mr Lansbury, "he would naturally expect that those differing would jolly well say so. The Prince is sufficient of- a sportsman to respect his opponents. "I would favour abolition of the cadet corps. The Prince says lam a crank, but the crank is an important part of an engine."