Compulsory Military Service
Sir, —As a sympathizer with “Bewildered,” I would like to add my plea for conscription. I am a married woman of three years’ standing, and will be proud to see my husband go, in his turn. Many single men today, I know, are single, not. because they cannot afford to support a wife, but because they are too selfish to do so. It might interfere with their weekend golf, etc. My husband, who has a conscience, and who was not too selfish to share his income, is on the point of joining up, because of the difficulty there seems to’be in filling the echelons. This, of course, means that we must sacrifice our home and start the struggle all over again when he comes back, if he does come back. As I see it, if we d<» not have conscription, it means that we lose the finest of our men and keep for the future fathers of this country a large percentage of shirkers. In this country of equal rights, let there be equal sacrifice. Let there be conscription.—l am, etc., , A WIFE. Masterton, February 9.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 118, 12 February 1940, Page 12
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189Compulsory Military Service Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 118, 12 February 1940, Page 12
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