Military Training
Sir,—Your correspondent “Ham” usually writes intelligently and I was surprised to read his contribution under this heading. Perhaps the letter signed “Individualist” in your issue of today will have helped him to see the matter in better perspective. The simple fact is that about 500 profession:;! specialists, possessing, and highly trained in the use of the most modern weapons, will be of more value in the defence of This country than all the thousands trained under the C.M.T. scheme, which is a ridiculous farce and a wicked and senseless waste of our manpower and resources. Military people of the professional class love compulsion and the power it gives them. Once they achieve too much power in the State, as, unfortunately, they have done today, they never willingly surrender any of it. I see a bitter struggle being waged to force the military to let go of a system which gives them power, in favour of one which would give the country the best security.—Yours, etc., TRUTH. March 8, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28532, 11 March 1958, Page 3
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