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THE adoption in Great Britain of the principle of conscription and the calling up for registration of youths between the ages of twenty and twenty-one years for a period of military service has raised the question of the position of university students. As regards those proceeding to universities after October next, Mr. E. Brown, Minister of Labour, stated in the House of Commons on June 22, that at a meeting held under the auspices of the Ministry between representatives of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Headmasters, together with representatives of the departments concerned, it was agreed unanimously to recommend that such boys should be given the option of postponing or anticipating their liability to undergo military training. Mr. Brown said he intended “to put this agreed conclusion into operation, subject to reviewing the position in twelvo months’ time in the light of experience, when I propose again to seek the advice and assistance of the representatives of the universities and the schools”. He also agreed to bear in mind the further recommendation that those under the age of eighteen years on January 1 of the year in which they wish to take their training should not be allowed to anticipate their military service.
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Students and Military Training. Nature 144, 17 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144017b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144017b0