A Quaker correspondent asks us to correct the misleading im-
pression that may be created by an " Appeal to the Conscience of the Nation " recently issued by the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends. The appeal is made on behalf of eleven hundred " conscientious objectors " who are in gaol and three thousand who are in Home Office labour camps. It would be natural to infer that these men are all Quakers. But that, our correspondent assures us, would be wholly untrue. Out of the four thousand one hundred shirkers, only one hundred and twenty-five belong to the Society of Friends. At least ten times as many Friends have en- listed, as all honourable Christian men should do. A letter which we publish this week shows how the Friends who are serving their country regard the nauseous cant of the " conscientious objector."
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