Many speakers but . . .

A large number of speakers from the floor followed. Some had a positive contribution to make. Someone (I forget who) exploded Thomas' "liberalism" ideas as bunkum. Wood suggested aid to underdeveloped countries as a means of preventing future war at the source, and Miss Blakelock said that when a country has accepted the need for military training it has also decided the idea of the inevitability of war.

Whitta said that those who suggested change in the present set-up were off the track, because to change is not to abolish, and Piper said why have C.M.T. when we've got such an "outstanding police force,"

The most complete statement of the views of the affirmative came from MacNeill. SEATO is of doubtful compatability with the UN; young men have been known to be brutalized or politically indoctrinated in the army. We could use the money better other ways, warfare means atomic warfare, and this training will be useless, and man is not naturally pugnacious as some have said.