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Sir John Simon made another, though milder, attempt to ruin

his late colleagues. He opposed the Bill, he declared, on grounds of principle and on grounds of expediency. In his arduous hunt for arguments against the Bill he clutched wildly at the conscientious objector, and actually had the audacity to argue, or rather to suggest inferentially, that it was difficult to see how adequate provision could be made for the conscientious objector without making the meshes of the net to wide.

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