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Bolstered with statistics, Minister Bevin appeared before the House and announced that Britain's war Government had decided to conscript both men and women for industry...
...further defeat with even keener relish was Seyyid Idris el Senussi, swart chieftain of the Libyan desert tribes whom Graziani "pacified" in 1930, executing their leaders, reputedly dropping their bodies into their camps from airplanes, then burning the camps and villages, impressing survivors into labor gangs and conscript regiments. Seyyid Idris was one of Commander in Chief General Sir Archibald Wavell's chief advisers in planning the war against Graziani, and last week, as that war went so amazingly well, his followers were reported rising through the desert back country, sabotaging Italian rear areas, slitting Italian throats...
...short, he volunteered when he didn't have to, and so long as there is a regular army and a conscript one, with all due respect to drafted men, a volunteer is a volunteer and will remain one. Let all vociferous young men still in civil life remember that...
Belligerent Canada has passed a conscription act, but compared to that of the United States, it reads like an excursion ad. Providing for only 30 days of training for each conscript, it calls for about 30,000 men per month, and aims at a maximum of 300,000 trained men. The Conservative Party scoffs at the shortness of the training period, and would extend it to four months! But the Army feels that the present lack of equipment makes this impractical...
...possibility of service abroad for the conscript is absolutely ruled out: it would be politically impossible. Only volunteers are sent a broad, and at present about 53,000 have gone. And to top off the military situation, Canada's Army is like a body without a head. There are plenty of junior officers, but scarcely half a dozen thoroughly trained higher officers who can handle large Army units...