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ad *The existence of Amertern aitirone vho ernnot partieinate fu any fore of war is rocoguized by the Telsctive 7ervica “reining act. A widesprund undarntasiing of why nunn Individuale exint and & buowled es of thoir baciteraund de osecntinl to tha succansful carrying out of this legielation,* Tho peaphlet atterpte to portrery the exiatanca af conactantions ovjoctors to war from the time of the early Chrietiens down through the cger, including the lreat Vorld Var, covoerning whom Lt is atetod, "although in the pnet thoy (conacientiow obfinctors) lava been eondemerd ta rrisgan snd eore to darth, Like the long line of religious rartyra, thay have boen willing to ondure cmishmant for their dacp bolief." In nupsort of thia-cantantion, the pamrhlet otatos that in the United States during the Inat Yorld “rr, L7 ware stonderned ta denth, 142 to life tnrrlaonmant end meny others to terme fron fiwa to teanty-fire yerra, It §9 eleo stated, hovavar, that thea aentances vara rll econcuted efter the wer, Tha pamphlet continumd that thea opposition of tha conesiortloun obsector to var and connertvtion ta treed on thedr beltef thet ver itoolf te #0 great rn ovil, that their loynlty to hoth God nad thalr country, correla than to refrein fraa partiefertion in tt. Tha ouestion in then noteat ~ other or not tt woul profit the strto to punich or ill thaee chore firzt lay Ltiy ig ton “niveresl (ol or m brotherhvod of all nankiud mnt who sua to serve the State by eztnding thaae Iderle. -. Th Ls nleo eteted therein, thet the cocneription Inw in Grant Pritnin, pasesld nt tha tine of tha declaration of war, mums libornl sroviaione for conactantione objeatora. here proviatans are reported to ba not rimly Liritad ta ofoctionn bread on religious training or doltef but to provicy for complete exe nption for ony indleidunl whe cennat cecert cormileory rorvice etary tina unvor the State. The prnphlot then atates thet unter tho Selective trervice end raining Act, tigzed by tha iroricent of the United Strtac or “ayterber WG, (Qt, the lrw providen wea and neon by stitch Sa goot Satth of tha conaclanthous objector ahntl ba dotermined, ond rico rrovisos that thoee of good fntth ba asatcnod to parforn "wore af rational inportenca under eivilipn dirpaotion,* According to the parphint, the law delidarntaly rvoids mention of recberohio in any ouurch and, cauroquentiy, Applian t? people of religious treinina end taliet, Cvanbuctlg the tntent of tha Inv fe thet conentenca should not ta Looked upon ean ronenoly ov any ahurch or even of the church as nvhole, but it mhould be arattor of Inddvlens) wetituce, t