CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS.
TO TUB EDITOR. Sir, —In your issue of October 1, I notice that a question asked an appellant before the Armed Forces Appeal Board) was ‘ 1 does your conscience permit you to pay war tax?” It is true that the conscientious objector to. war is placed in some difficulty in knowing where to make his stand, hut I suggest that this question comes strangely from a legal body, for there is a legal obligation on all citizens to pay taxes (there is no legal appeal provided against this) hut there is a legal right to object to war service, and thus the conscientious objector is acting legally and consistently by paying his _ taxes and appealing against war service. In putting this question, however, the tribunal lays itself open to the charge, quite innocently I am sure, of encouraging objectors not to pay their taxes. —t am, etc.. R. Thurlow Thompson. Christchurch, October 4.,
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Evening Star, Issue 24008, 6 October 1941, Page 6
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