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According to the terms of the draft bill, a person "who, by religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form" in defined as a conscientious objector and is set subject to "combatant training and service in the land and naval forces of the United States...
However, this does not mean that such an objector is excused from registering, and the faculty Civil Rights Committee is urging all men to register no matter what their beliefs, not only because failure to do so will cause heavy penalties but also because any such failure will prevent later claims for exemption...
Summoned before a London tribunal, Conscientious Objector Frederick Stephen Temple, nephew of the Archbishop of York, was exempted from combat service on religious grounds. Quaker Temple, an ambulance driver in Norway and Finland, desired to remain with his unit for the duration of World...
Meanwhile the Canadian Communist Party was declared outlawed amid a rush of Dominion feeling against Red quislings. ∧ Nazi invasion of The Netherlands and Belgium caused a great spurt in New Zealand recruiting. Prime Minister Peter Fraser, who during World War I was a conscientious objector jailed for "seditious utterances," is now all out for Allied victory, cabled to Prime Minister Churchill a pledge of "the fullest cooperation of New Zealand's Government and people, Europeans and Maoris alike." Recruiting spurted strongly on news of the latest Nazi Blitzkrieg...
...Warr, and First Commissioner of Works Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Ram's Bottom) also landed in each other's chair. Cabinet critics waited to see what sort of stuff this new & bigger job brought out of young De La Warr, who in World War I was a conscientious objector who showed his nerve by serving on a mine sweeper...