DEFENCE OF LIBERTY
NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS. MR CHAMBERLAIN’S APPEAL. (United Press Association —By Electric T elegraph.—Copyright.) Received January 24, 12.45 p.m. LONDON. Jan. 23. The Prime Minister (Mr Chamberlain), continuing his speech at the launching of the National Service Campaign, asked all who were ready to volunteer and who were not already engaged in work essential to the country’s security to choose some form of service outside their ordinary work.
Mr Chamberlain concluded: “There are some who believe a compulsory scheme would be more effective, but compulsion is not in accordance with the democratic system under which we live, nor is it consistent with the tradition of freedom we have always striven to maintain. We are confident that we shall get all the volunteers required without recourse to compulsion. It is for you to show the world what a free people are prepared to do in the defence of their liberties and ideals, and I am confident the call will bring the response for which I ask.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 47, 24 January 1939, Page 8
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