ORGANISING NATIONAL SERVICE
At present the British Government will not and perhaps dare not impose compulsory national service, and the leaders of Labour are very nervous lest, by agreeing to compulsion in any form through patriotism and goodwill, they may sacrifice the libertv of the people, writes Sir Cyril Norwood, the eminent English educationist, in a recent article. The whole issue is clouded by misconceptions and preconceptions, and no progress is made. Yet we have been caught unprepared already once, and the memory of our unpreparedness must be a nightmare to all who care for our national freedom and our world position. Is it not possible to conceive of national service under a fresh light and on a wider basis, and make of it something which will pull the nation together and not divide it? For it requires no deep insight into the future to see that, if in the name of individual freedom we refuse to organise as a nation, we shall be in great danger of losing our national freedom altogether and with it all that is most worth having in individual freedom.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23705, 12 January 1939, Page 18
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185ORGANISING NATIONAL SERVICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23705, 12 January 1939, Page 18
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