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Author(s) -
M. ROBERTSON
Publication year - 1916
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1916.tb89453.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , library science
As then so now the motives of anti-conscriptionists var\. In the period of the World War I there were those who opposed conscription because it contributed to an imperialist war. T he open opponents of imperial ism then included many of the Irish who had their own quarrel with imperialist Britain. There were those who opposed all war, those who opposed war on moral and religious grounds, and there were those with quite dub ious reasons.