1 March 1916: After earnestly protesting against all war as murder,a man in a London court naively added that the pay wasn’t good enough eitherIt may be the fault of the correspondents, whose choice tends naturally towards the abnormal, or but the conscientious objectors who possess been before the tribunals so far do not strike one as at all typical. Some possess gone to the extreme of delightful ingenuousness,as witness the man in a London court who after earnestly protesting against all war as murder, naively added that the pay wasn’t good enough either. Other applicants, or in their eagerness to prove that they really possess a conscience,possess gone to lengths which fade far to convict them of having no conscience at all. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com