Apart from prompt enrolment (we do not trouble about prompt
offers et work, for we know very well that the moment enrolment has taken place the military authorities will probably ask not too little but too much of the Volunteers), we are most anxious that the Government should issue an appeal to the men of non- military age, and the men who have been exempted from service abroad on ordinary medical grounds or because they are .indis- pensable at the moment, to join the Volunteer Training Corp& Here the Government have only to ask and 'have. We are WWII that if it were made clear that it was the duty of every man wend in wind and limb up to the age of sixty, or even sixteefive, to whine teer, the response would be well-nigh universaL An appeal signed by the Prime Minister, the Secretary for War, and Field-Marshal
French, as the General Officer commanding the home defences, would soon give us a million and a half men, many of whom Lave already received their training, but left the Volunteers because they were possessed by the idea that they were only embarrassing the Government by any longer supporting the force.
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