London, Apr. 27.
ESOLUTION similar to the Government's motion on conscript tion, moved in the House of Lords today by Lord Stanhope, First Lord of the Admiralt and Leader of the House of Lords, was passed without division, Lord Stanhope received cheers seldom heard in th> House of Lor ds. He emphasized Britain's new obligations {0 Poland, Rumania and Greece, and also stressed the fact that countries such as Fran ce and Russia already had compulsory military service, Lord Snell and Lord Samuel, for the Labour and Liberal Oppositions, opposed the motion, on the ground that conscription was unnecessary, as more men had been"voluntering than could be given equi iment and training facilities.
The Government motion advocating the adopting of conscript tion in Great Britain was passed at the conclusion of the debate in the House of Commons today, by 378 votes to 145. The Labour amendment to the motion was defeated by 380 votes to 143.
"It would be a mistake to. think that Buropean" problems could he solved by calling up 200,000 youths of 20 years of aye," declared Mr, Winston Churchill, wartime First Lord the Admiralty, in a speech supporting, the Government's motion on conseription in the House of Commons debate today.
Mr, Churchill's speech was ilu. minated with his customary graphic Mlustrations.
Dealing with the assumption that the issue should be submitted to a Keneral election, he said he dit not doubt that the' Government would win, but that they would have j new Parliament, deeply bitter, with a large minority of the nation worked Ino burning anti-Government oppo sition, If the Opposition won, anc established the principle of no compulsory military service, the whole resistance Europe to Nozi domination would collapse,
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