Files Of Parade
HE falling-off in the recruiting figures for T There is nothing to prevent the Government from irresponsibly offering renewed inducements in cash or kind to bring the recruiting figures temporarily back to the required level. Or, of course, it can simply pretend (as it has done so often in the last few years) that the army is so efficient. and so wisely distributed, that fewer men are required than was originally estimated. But when the decision is taken—as soon it must he--to concentrate on conventional forces, instead of continuing to throw away money in the pursuit of an independent deterrent, then the hollowness of this argument is going to be brutally exposed; some form of selective con- scription will have to be introduced; and the Government will find itself incurring a lot more unpopularity.
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