" PEACE-TIME CONSCRIPTION"
Sto,—In your stimulating article on peacetime conscription you say: " To keep men already serving still longer with the colours is inde- fensible," and " for university students military service can be deferred until after the degree course is completed." In this connection may I espouse the cause of a small minority of students who are in danger of having a hiatus of four years between school and university? The overwhelming majority who left school in the summer of 1943 are now eligible for Class B release in order that they can recommence their studies in October, 1946. A few of them, however, owing to the fact that their call-up was delayed a few days after September I, 1943, and in spite of the fact that they satisfy the condition that they will have served three years before the Michaelmas Term begins, are, under present con- ditions, doomed to wait until October, 1947, before they can resume their interrupted education. A three-year gap between school and • uni- versity is a handicap, but a four-year gap is tragic.—Yours, &c., X Y Z.
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