Prisoners of Hope the Problem of the Conscientious Objector
Prisoners of Hope the Problem of the Conscientious Objector
Peake, Arthur S. (Arthur Samuel), 1865-1929
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The work of discriminating between genuine and spurious objection on the ground of conscience and giving a just decision required rather rare qualifications a judicial mind and robust common sense, of course, but also a nimble and flexible intellect, a sympathetic insight into strange opinions, a just appreciation of uncongenial points of view, PRISONERS OF HOPE 71 some grasp of ethical theory, some knowledge of historical precedent. It would have been idle to expect the members of the local Tr...ibunals to exhibit such a constellation of qualities, and the responsibility of failure does not entirely attach to them. In certain cases they were unquestion- ably wrongly advised. Mrs. Hobhouse gives in- stances where Tribunals have held that they did not possess the power to grant absolute exemption to conscientious objectors, in plain defiance of the terms of the Act. Moreover, Mr. Long, when President of the Local Government Board, issued a circular in which the following paragraph occurs : " Absolute exemption can be granted in all cases where conditional exemption will not adequately meet the case.
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