MILITARY CONSCRIPTION
Sir, —In last Sunday’s national broadcast the Indian Christian dignitary, Dr. M.mikam, movingly pleaded for goodwill, friendship and co-operation with all non-white peoples. These are certainly not qualities cultivated in youth through military training, which begins at school .already at the age of 14. Because of parental apathy and general ignorance, military training at school is looked upon as compulsory, which it is not. Hence, nd headmaster has the power to grant exemption from it; and if he does he is usurping this right. No law and no courage are required to abolish this underhand method of conscripting under-age youth for education for death and for implanting in them a philosophy of war. This practice has been carried on far too long.—Yours, etc., NO MORE CONSCRIPTION. June 11, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27374, 12 June 1954, Page 9
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