MILITARY SERVICE
TREATMENT OF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS DISCUSSION AT BAPTIST ASSEMBLY Auckland, Oct. 22. “I am convinced that the country will not stand too much of that sort of thing. It savours too much of Judge Jeffreys.' said Dr. Alexander Hodge at the Baptist Assembly when referring to magisterial comments on conscientious objectors. He moved that the assembly reaffirm its adherence to the sacred principle of the integrity and liberty of the individual conscience and that while as a booy it believed in the justice and the righteousness of the Empire war effort, it deprecated the humiliating and unfair treatment accorded to certain conscientious objectors to war who had resisted coercive inclusion in the lighting forces. He said it was fundamentally wrong to conclude that conscientious objectors were malingers and worse to assume that they were cowards It required more courage to face a Court’s prosecution? and gaol than to face the enemy. The motion was carried after Mr S. Barrv opposed the condemning of magistrates. F.A
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 October 1941, Page 4
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166MILITARY SERVICE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 October 1941, Page 4
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