Thank you for your letter of the 6th December thanking me for my application as a conscientious objector.

I note with regret your classifying of me as a late registrant and while I agree under your regulations I must certainly be this, I find the position you have placed me in to be quite unacceptable.

1 must point out, in the strongest terms that at no time, neither when leaving this country nor when returning to it, was 1 advised of your regulation concerning this matter, it was only by a stroke of luck that I found I had to register for national service at all.

I can only infer from this, that you did not wish to advise me of my rights, or lack of them, as a citizen of this country. In view of this, I find that unless you are willing to change your attitude as regards the terms of my application, I may be forced to disregard the whole thing on the grounds that it is taking advantage of the ignorant, and so being, completely unjust.

I trust I will hear from you in the near, future about this matter.

Yours faithfully,