WE WON’T FIGHT.

Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18946, 16 May 1933, Page 3

WE WON’T FIGHT.

MANCHESTER SUPPORTS OXFORD

A.DECISIVE VOTE

Manchester University Union followed Oxford’s lead and passed, by 371 votes to 196, a resolution "That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and Country.” The meeting, which was crowded with students, also passed a resolution expressing "Sincere condolences to the students of University College, Nottingham, in the deprivation they have suffered of the most elementary rights of free speech.” The president, in proposing the main resolution, defined fighting for King and country as being engaged in military operations under one’s State military organisation. There were, he said, a number or fallacies which underlay modern warfare. Organised military warfare had been proved up to the hilt to be unsound, politically, economically, biologically and even on military grounds Mr Winston Churchill had referred to Germany with its splendid deareyed youth : demanding to be conscripted into an army, and burning to auffer and die for the Fatherland.^ “I should prefer,” said Mr Fox, “to say what we think of the world, with its splendifl clear-eyed youth demanding to be conscripted into social service and burning to live for mankind.” (Cheers.) The motion was seconded by the secretary of the Manchester University branch of the League of Nations Union. He said: “We as students do not want war. There is abroad today a lack of faith in such things as the League of Nations. If there were faith in it then such a motion as this would be unnecessary.” Mr A. S. .T. Morgan declared that modern warfare was the supreme immorality of civilisation. The motion was carried amid cheering. Afterwards students carried on ieated arguments.