The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 79
Appendix A. — National Service
Appendix A.
National Service.
Conscription for National Service can be fully justified at such a critical juncture as the present, on the ground that:
(1) | The individual must(if need be) be got to recognise his obligations to the State. |
(2) | It is but just and fair to exact from all the physically fit, of military age, the service at present rendered voluntarily by only a portion of our recruitable men. |
(3) | The absolute necessity of National self-preservation |
(4) | The inadequacy of the voluntary system to supply the necessary number of men to meet the present needs of the Empire. |
(5) | A purely voluntary system is, essentially, unfair to the volunteers. |