REFUSAL TO FIGHT
UNIVERSITY STUDENTS CRITICISM BY MINISTER [from our own correspondent] By Air Mail LONDON. May 13 University men who said they would not fight were taken to task by the Rev. G. E. Durham, of Liverpool, a retired lieutenant in the Royal Marines, at a service to commemorate the Zeebrugge raid, held in a ferry boat in the Mersey. Ten survivors of the raid were present. The service was conducted by the Rev. U. Martin, a former sergeantmajor in the marines. Mr. Durham, claiming that the Zeebrugge raid showed the British were a fighting nation and "would not be whacked," said: "There seems to be a type of intellectualism to-day which has not a good word to say about England and the Empire. I was shocked to read that young 'knuts* of Oxford and Cambridge would not fight. I think some of those young fellows who 101 l on their backs in boats on the Cam and Isis would not be harmed by six months in a destroyer to wake them up." Mr. Durham said he was told that bishops ought not to bless battleships. He asked why not. A battleship, he added, carried 1000 souls, and the soul of a sailor was as good as that of a butcher, a baker, or a candlestick maker.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22434, 2 June 1936, Page 11
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