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the Territorial Field Force will have all the modern weapons used by the Regular Army and Ninety-Third-Year of Publication on a similar scale. At present, the Territorials only have a quota SA Wyndham Street, Hong Kong.for training (and a very small

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PROBLEMS OF CONSCRIPTION ·

ritorial Force. And now the programme is to be more tham doubled. It cannot be done with- out a revolution in our methods of production and without really energising and energetic Ministry of Supply to mobilise in- dustry for the new 'needs. The demands of aircraft production are already putting a big strain on industry and labour. If there is not to be a repetition of the heart-breaking delays in produc- ing army equipment, of which so- much was heard after the Sept- ember crisis, an effort almost commensurate în size and, inten- sity with that on aircraft will have to be made. If we are wise we shall do now what in any case we should have to do in a war-give the Ministry of Sup- ply immediately extensive powers: over industry. The argument. that this interferes with "busin- The Prime Minister's state- ess as usual" has worn thin; we see where it has brought us. We ment on the decision to impose a may have to submit to some in measure of conscription was of terferences and controls, but they great importance, for not only can be introduced gradually and did it reveal plans for compulsory operation of employers and work- intelligently and with the co- military service, but it marked people. Even now, however, fuller acceptance of the need to there is a feeling that conscrip- meet speed of action with equal tion, although advocated passion- speed by authorising national will create more problems than it ately as a sort of fortifying elixir,. mobilisation by decree. Opposi would solve. France may ap tion objections were unexpected-plaud the "gesture," but they do. ly sharp, but it is difficult not to not have to deal with the social: friction or meet a challenge to agree with Mr. Chamberlain's arrange a scale of equivalence be contention that the pledge not to tween conscription of life and introduce compulsory service in conscription of wealth. The pro- peacetime scarcely contemplated work if the people trust the posed system is mild and will

as peacetime the long period of Government. At the moment that grave uncertainty through which is the weakest spot. we are and have been passing, when no one can predict exact- ly what or how dangerous the next move may be.

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It was a pity that some of the most interesting information had The other day, an agreement. to be dragged from him by sup-was signed by which the "London: plementary questions. As on Mercury" ceased to exist and its many previous occasions, it look rights became merged in “Life- ed as though the Prime Minister and Letters To-day," a magazine thought it too much trouble, or founded by Mr. Desmond Mac- too perilous, to take the House in Carthy a few years ago and now to his confidence. His affection in other hands. Sir John Squire, for under-statement continues to the founder of the "London Mer-- be a grave disability to the coun-cury," who made it among other try.

things, the vehicle for the young- er poets of England, gave up the That the Cabinet were in pos-editorship four and a half years session of certain information ago, and Mr. R A. Scott-James- which made urgent the need for when he took charge maintained acting on the conscription plans the early standards of the "Mer was suggested by his reply to cury" and much of the work of Sir Archibald Sinclair "There Auden, Spender Day Lewis, and was not time, “he said, do other notable young posts appear- more than consult Mr. Attlee.ed in its pages. The last poenis To Mr. Lloyd George, he re of W.B. Yeats were also printed: vealed that approximately 310,700 there.

men would be called up for train. Among the many arresting ing under the Government's Bill things that have appeared in the and that the actual number who Mercury under Scott-James's - would undertake training would editorship were G. B. Shaw's lot. be about 200,000. Few enough ters to Farleigh, with Shaw's from the French point of view, own drawings to assist the but large enourn for British artist in his illustrations for military resour to handle at "Black Girl in the present time.

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