Conscription conflict: the conflict of ideas in the struggle for & against conscription in Britain between the years 1901-39

Conscription conflict: the conflict of ideas in the struggle for & against conscription in Britain between the years 1901-39

Contents:- Introduction 1. Wanted: conscription for all 2. The Norfolk Commission, before and after 3. The National Service League 4. The threat of invasion 5. The business of war 6. The young and the long 7. Early bills for compulsion 8. Hamilton and Haldane against Roberts and others 9. Lord Roberts at Manchester 10. The shadow of war 11. Bolstering of voluntarism 12. Parliament and the war 13. Your country needs you 14. A Roland for an Oliver 15. Conscription comes 16. The second bite 17. Political oppression 18. The No-Conscription Fellowship 19. Religion and the opposition 20. Conscription in history 21. Raising the balance 22. The end of an epoch 23. Twenty years of struggle 24. The armed peace 25. Reprise

Hayes, Denis

Sheppard Press 1949, pp.408, Bibliography, Index

SR M 176