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Tribute THOUGH. the war on land has
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who have been the victims of the war. at sea, and to the men who have risked their own lives in the Let us salute the work of rescue. devotion of all these men, and their stendfast courage.
ET us determine, also, to face
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and overcome the new pro-
blems created by the Nazi mines
which prey indiscriminately on the shipping of the world. The inten-
Autos. Whilely with apreole is the famous practure by WiFi yeAMES BA!
"WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?" A suspected anti-Hitler plut by the ex-Crown
Prince and other relatives of the exiled Kaiser is being investigated by the Nazis, say reports from Germany,
CONSCIENCE
on
ONSCIENCE," sald Hamlet, "doth make cowards of us all." But in war-time con- science makes brave men of a lot of young people.
Think of the nervousness, the desperate unhappiness which must of us feel if we are called upon to make the shortest speech at a wedding or a dumer or to say think you publicly for a set of pre- sentation Ash-knives.
What a torluring processton ensues of ums and ahis, throat- clearings and nervous clutelings of the nearest solld support! The Engilshman's home li his soap- box: outside it as a rule he is as "dumb-as-an.ox.and.not nearly_as__
decorative.
Yet in many parts of Britain at present young men of 20 and 31 with no experience of public speak- ing are standing up in public courts to proclaim views which in a country at war. are the most un- popular views they could possibly hold-pacifist ones.
Except for the professional martyr, it is never wholly pleasant, and certainly always difficult, to swim against the main current of public opinion.
The War Aim
Possibly young conscientious objectors are fortified in thelṛ ap- peal for tolerance by the state- ment that this particular war is being fought for democracy and Huerty and the freedom of indi. vidual opinion.
Come with me, then, to one par- Objectors' tleblar Conscientious Tribunal, which in the course of month. has little more than gained for Itself some notoriety, to see how far these high-minded principles are being given expres
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the CARPET
by Stuart Fletcher
slap by the professional examinets of conscience.
These elderly examiners — a county court judge, a professor of an ex-educationist, philosophy, and a retired trade union leader- sit in the Council Chamber of Ful- ham Town Hall. They constitute the London Conselenllous Objec- tors' Tribunal.
Stage is Set
A hall-circle of oak pews faces them. Overlooking them is a pub- He gallery whence from time to time come duly reproved tittera. murmurs of disapprobation, and whispered controversies..
Around the chamber are stained glass windows of past kings and queens of England.
at
A Me-size oll painting
the Fith behind George the Judge's chair is flanked by stiff and ifeless portraits of numerous mayers of Fulham, all of whom with the artists have contrived
make ingenuity to considerable
than look like. mayors rather human beings,
An usher- The stage 1 set. one-armed man who is probably a wounded veteran of the last war... calls out a name and a young man, his adam's apple bobbing up and down in au extremity of ner- vousness: walks hurriedly into the well of the court and faces the Tribunal.
Having verified.the applicant's name, the Judge rends out his statement claiming exemption. This is a testament of faith, some-
times eloquently, more often tert- Dusly willen, but none the less a testament.
The judge reads it out in a lat. dry, hurrying volce as if it is an inventory of rather unsavoury groceries.
And
questions. Then come these, as I have pointed out in th newspaper already, give the im- pression of being designed less to measure the depth of an appil- cant's conscience than to muddle -a-mind-Already confused_by_the necessity of making a desperate decision.
The amount of barren theolog!- cal disputation and smart-alect: bandying of Bible texta which goes on in this court would have tried the patience even of a conference of medieval schoolmen.
the New Testa "Where in ment," asks the judge. "des Christ specifically any that war is Incompatible with His teaching?"
Who is Wrong?
The
"Love your neighbour as your- self by all means," allows philosopher member of the Tri- bunal, speaking in a crisp and quite delightful Scottish recent. but don't attempt to tell me that you can extend that love to a whole country.
what la unten- abic."
(Yel was it not Mr. Chamber- Inin's own brother who vowed on a famous occasion: "I love France as one loves a woman")
The judge dealing with another young man has an ingenious idea.
Everyone Ought
tion la clear to ring our consts WITHOUT wanting with an impassable barrier and starve us out.
Make
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A Solicitor Tells You How
ing repugnant to God? he asks. But God so loved the world that He sent His only Son to the earth to be killed for humanity's sake. Moreover, in the last resort. by means of death He kills us all.
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On and on the arguments go, settling nothing except that number of young men who have expressed their conscientious ob- Jestion to participating in the activities of the war machine are clutched into its mechanism.
Nearly always their bewildered Incoherence is, no match for the dialectical skill and frivolous in- genuity of the Tribunal.
Elbowed Out
An applicant glyca a political basis for his objection. But, says the Tribunal, palities have nothing to do with conscience.
are
Are we then, to belleve that our rulers and representatives, elected under the democracy for which we Oghting. are professional cynics devold of conscience and able ke lawyers to adapt their political faiths to the most remun- erative brici?
Occasionally Mr. A. B. Swales, the trade union member, rosy- and faced, white - moustached, rather reassuring. enters the debate with more good intent than success-his method of pallent in- quiry seems to be elbowed out by the debating society experts.
And what, in terms of Agures, In does this Tribunal achieve? Just over a month since its first: sitting on October 3, 465 cases werg heard by it.
were Of the applicants 180 ordered to do non-combatant ser- vice; 165 were exempted from fighting on condition that they did civilian work of national im- portance (many of them wore al- ready doing so); seven were un- conditionally exempted; and 104 totally had their applications rejected.
that
To the applicants, at all events. must be an unsatisfactory state of affairs. The State Itsell will aufer, too, in further waste of time when the Appeals Tribunal ls to hear many of these cases alt uver again.
Rough and Ready
to bei unduly gloomy, we must admit that in these days of What is the answer? First, the possible black-outs life is even
Meanwhile, although the prob one that has been given--economic more precarious than usual.
Therefore it it was wise for every!
lem is one to try the wisdom and reprint. Second, the sweeping of man and woman to make a Will la the mlacs. If, as is supposed, they pence time, it is even more a duty
At the moment solicitors' offices, tattooed on his back, but such odd patience of angels, far more satis- now to see that your affairs are in are mines of a new type, the task of
are full of people who want Wills Ideas merely cast doubl upon the factory results are being obtained
in other courts. reasonable order.
drafted, but not everyone has ruinens sanity of the testator.
You can begin by saying "I, John I attended a sitting of the South-- sweeping them may present new
ta spere just now. But there is no
.......hereby revoke East of England Tribunal. Here MiMculties. We must overcome
Smith, of great dificully about making those dificulties, and we ballove Practically averybody has some simple Will and if your affairs are all former Wills made by me and the applicant's initial objection seemed to accepted, and the that they will be overcome. “
thing to leave it it's only some not complicated you can do it per declare this to be my last
Then go on to say as simply no Tribunal probed its depth by find- Third, and not least important, furniture or an Insurance polley. fectly well yoursdf.
want. and you will
For most of us, all we want to do possible what you want to do with ing out what kind of job the man we must strain every effort not sure that it goes tą tho pro-
to say who is to have our bits of your property. Avoid using before thom would be willing to do leave no
Iri wartime.
tune of the part you! merely to replace' tho ships we are per person. 11
stand they may have some technical losing, but to build up a merchant Will the law will distribute your property and who is to look hiter legal terms you may not fully under
A Will must be in writing, but it meaning which is not what you of a judge, this seems to be the Reet which will more than suffice goods for you Recording to the rules our estate. You can do it like this. of intestacy, but that may mean
If you are leaving all your goods best rough-and-ready method. or printed. It may bo on ony for all our war-time needs, with a comething very different from what may be in ink or pencil, typewritten intend
For, since we are aghting for margin to spare. That in a great you intended.
material, but most of us would use to your wife you wit any "I give nll task, but it can be done.
And that is especially true if you paper. There have been plenty of my real and personal calate to my freedom, it is obvious that toler single man or woman-distant freak Wille made on such thing as wife, Jane Smith." But if you are ance should err on the side of error
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of the earth to share in your estate, one is walking about with his Will
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