The Week Number Eight Page 3 Peace Campaign Notes C.n.d. Firm Against Conscription

The scan: The Week v1 no8.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Tesseract OCR) from a scan of a stencilled typescript and has not been corrected. Expect misread words; titles in particular are often garbled where the issue printed no contents list. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: capitals heading; heuristic; title from the OCR of the heading.

At its last meeting the Executive Committee of C.N.D. adopted a statement on conscription which emphatically cpposed its reintroductian. After stating that it was deeply concerned at the frequency with which arguments were being advanced for the reintroduction of conscription, the stdsnont dealt with the argument that conscription was an alternat— ive to an indepsndent deterrent. It pointed out that the Labour Party was committed to upgrading Britain's convential arm as an alternative defence policy to relinnce on nuclear weapons. Drawing attention to the fact that this argument ignores McNamara's statement that Western forces were already well ahead of those of the Sovi.:t Union, it went to demonstrate that this policy too is a variant of the ‘deterrent! theory of keeping peacee The statement reiterates that the C.E.C of C.N.D. will oppose any attempt to reintroduce any kind of conscription - total or selective.