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12. ISNT CONSCRIPTION NECESSARY FOR NATIONAL SECURITY? it succeeds in doing so, an internationat police wy have little chance of being elfertive. No inuginable in The assumption that national security can be found national police could restrain Hussia now, or even. in national arned force is totally fal:c. National armed United States. With reduction and Himitation of ari force gives not serurity, but a yamnller's hope of victory. nwnts, the number of men in armed forces would be Security reqnires more; it requires the prevention of war. duccd so much thnt thcre should be little difficul!y War cannot be prevented by arnsed forcc, because each obtaining sullicicnt voluntcers if the worid shouldd de stcp a nation takes to inercase its own security thereby to maintain for a time an internntional police comp decreases the stcurity of its neighbors. Security itself of nilitary units. In any casc, thcre is a certain re. is the chicl purpese of national policy; nations are niore tance about conseripting nen to serve outside their co willing to fight for it than for any other single objective.. try under another authority than the government of tJ So a systen in which each step to increase one's security own country. It is important not to over-estinate thrcalcns that ol his ncighbor is a system whicl inakes ralue of coercion in maintaining order in any connur security impossi!l. and war inevitatde. Security cannot including the community of nalions.. be attained through national mititary power; it can be. aitained only in wurld order.. Conseription as a p:rmauent policy is hostile to world 14. WOULDNT CONSCRIPTION ENHAN order. World order reyuirrs world organization with provision for peacrf:! sellcment of disputes, provision. OUR SPMITUAL STRENGTH AS for elleciive cooperation on coninon problems and for NATION? orderly change of conditions which have: become unsatis factory; it requires. as Secretary Cordell Hull put it Patriotism is a virtue; a sense of duty to serve (March 21, 191) *adjustment o! armaments in such a community should be developcd in every citizen. J way that the rule ol law cannot be successfully chal. can a young man get such an attitude better tha:t in. lenged." experience of giving a year of service, with othcrs of own age from all kinds and conditions of nien? Conscription may be so regulated, as in the case of a small country like Switzeriand, shat the country does not It sometincs happens that virtue practiced thereby beconic a threat to the rest of the world. But compulsion ceases to be virtue. When an irate alun conscription as a general policy does not give security; told Dr. Jowett, of Bailiol College, that compulsory its tendency is against security because it lends to em-. tendance at chapel must be continned because: the ch phasize reliance on arned power instead of enphasizing Iay between conpulsory religion and no religion. loyal participation in the adryunie world organization Jowett replied, "The distinction, sir, is too subtle for which is the only nirans by which real security can be mind to apprchend." It may bc asked whether' attained. pulsory patriotisin is not in danger of breaking d into unpatriotism. 13.WOULD NOT CONSCRIPTION BE NEEDED Naiional unity as deveioped by conseription is 1 IN A CENERAL WORLD ORGANIZATION to he illusory. A conscription systen with contir. TO MAN A WORLD POLICE? liability for reserve service gives governinent exre. power over hndividuals. Twiee. for exanple, Frene!: One of the main task- of such a world organization crnments disposed ol railroad stril.es by mobiliziy would be to reduce and linit national armaments. Unles. strikers. A sense of suspicion is more likely to dhe. than u sense of national unity. 1 12 1 [ 13 ]