Compulsory Service

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 109, 1 February 1940, Page 11

Compulsory Service

Sir, —Under this heading your correspondent “Hawke’s Bay” quotes that there are thousands ready to enlist from a sense of duty, but they say, "Why should we go and leave the slackers and shirkers to take over our jobs and positions.” I cannot understand this, as if they will enlist from a “sense of duty”—Why have they not done so ere this? Then again, they say, “Why leave our jobs for the slackers, etc.” Who are the slackers ami shirkers? Surely these very men themselves are. That is the only logical conclusion I can come to; perhaps these “sense of duty” men can explain their way of reasoning.

I see by this morning’s paper that Mr. Fraser is reported to have said that it is possible the Government: will ask the jieople to vote on the question of conscription. Apparently the Government have not got the confidence of their large majority to bring in conscription. AVhat are they frightened of? The point that a good many people out here forget is this. If (I say that advisedly) Germany should win this war, England would still be England, but New Zealand would be a German colony.—l am, etc.,

MAN OF KENT. Alasterton, January 30.