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The Cambridge done go on to suggest that the selfsame

principle of indirect pressure should be extended far beyond the Universities. All candidates for the Civil Service, and possibly for the Police Force, might be similarly made subject to a military qualification. The vast army of applicants for municipal and railway employment might also be told that none but men who had had a military training need apply. Private employers, the dons think, would follow the example. " Thus, without any application of universal conscription, but merely by the operation of ordinary motives, a sufficient number of trained men might be added to the Territorial Forces."