The Government, Mr. Churchill went on, had fought for the
abolition of Conscription at the Peaoe Conferencein_but they had fought with singularly little success. No nation represented, either among the ex-neutral or ex-belligerent States, had fol- lowed thelead of Great Britain. He added a list of these States, ending with Russia, " the home of advanced political thought," which had instituted "not only military but industrial conscrip- tion." Undiscouraged, however, we had set an example, and alone among the nations had.. decided to abolish compulsory military service. A characteristic passage followed hr which Mr. Churchill praised our action as though its advantages were • self-evident, and in which he carefully -omitted all reference to the advantages of compulsory military training, which we have also set aside.
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