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WOULD LENGTHEN WAR LONDON. Nov. 14. Wives of soldiers serving in the Far East, who petitioned the Secretary for War. Sir James Grigg, asking that continuous service for married men in distant war zones should be reduced to three years, have been told officially that to bring the men homo before their service was over would only lengthen the war. More than 1000 wives signed the petition. Their husbands had already been without home leave for several years, and they said their chances o£ having children were diminishing. Sir James Grigg. in his reply, said: “Unlike the R.A.F. and the Americans, we have not got abundant reserves of trained man-power. Consequently any drastic shortening of'the period of oversea service would m point of hard fact lengthen the war. “I believe the great generality of troops serving abroad would willingly forgo a greater reduction in their all-too-long turn of service overseas if it meant hastening the final defeat of Germany.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21579, 5 December 1944, Page 4
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