§ 35. Mr. HURDasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he can see his way to offer conscientious objectors now in prison the opportunity of release on condition that they take their places as non-combatants in the Army of Occupation, and so release men who have borne the burdens of fighting and long service and for whom places are waiting in civilian life?
Captain GUESTI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave to a similar question asked by the hon. and gallant Member for Southport on 17th March, to the effect that it has always been the practice to release any man of the class referred to who has given an undertaking to serve in any non-combatant unit, and that any conscientious objector who is prepared to give that undertaking will be given the opportunity of so serving.