CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23088, 2 August 1940, Page 12

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS

' EDITOR OF THE PRESS. ■/ regarding condoes not appear to "by some of your ,cor- , respondents. The Government has lor ■- row-years provided by Jaw tot ex- ? ■ emotion-for thosewho conscientiously ‘ object -to’ war activities. Some two monttefago -fresh ‘ regulations were * gazetted, and it is regrettable that the ' details have not been communicated - to -4he public by : press or radio. -Kecently. the Public Service Commissioner/bas; ifc-appears. (and here again information has been withheld) dism&sed a number of men and women who^'declined ,to giye a signed undertaking not to discuss the war during f the ■‘hours when - , not employed. ’ , ’lt.seems that this action repudiates - V the written into, .the law. It ’• iseSms; too/ that .the" way in which some ' who have .taken no public -part 4n ac- : f ,- tivities regarding the war were singled : for interrogation, suggests tho.use ‘ of - the .felblitical ‘informer. This State ,thdt';it’4s an institution under and/cahndtitherefore contract out ?- *bt ''the %Orar -obligations arising from clajmi'Jhvtiie same way,? ChrisBtianfi? orderly government asT'a divine-institution, and there-, Scores' -toSbe- assisted,-, are - ' not- thereby tn .affirming that the State or,infallible.—Yours, was-submitted, to

the war during the hours not employed.”]