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"I knew before I came along that it would be useless," declared a conscientious objector who said he did not believe in God or a military uniform and whose appeal was dismissed j by the Armed Forces Appeal Board today. "I should think your own common sense would have told you that you could not expect anything else after the statements you have made here," commented the chairman (Mr. M. F. Luckie). "You've just been wasting time," supplemented Mr. C. O. Bell, Crown representative. The appellant was Alexander George Bremner, tram conductor, who said he had always been against the military, and in the cadets had refused to wear a uniform. He told Mr. Bell he had pacified recalcitrant tramway passengers by talking to them—"l have never had to call in the police yet"—and he thought that talking would do a great deal more good than the slaughter that was going on at ---sent i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 135, 10 June 1942, Page 4
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