RECRUITING IN BRITAIN
* Voluntary System On Trial CONSCRIPTION MAY BE UNAVOIDABLE (TNtTF.D PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received December 27, 8,50 p.m.) LONDON, December 28. A hint that conscription may be unavoidable is contained in an article by the Secretary for War (Mr A. Duff-Cooper), published in thb periodical “Home and Empire,” in which he emphasises that the enlistment of only 5 per cent, of Britain’s able-bodied men is required to solve the recruiting problem. “The voluntary system must justify itself in face of the challenge from conscript nations,” he says. T cannot over-strongly emphasise that the system is on trial. Recruiting is so unsatisfactory that it will break down unless there is a large and immediate improvement.”
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21976, 28 December 1936, Page 7
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