Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Armed Forces – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 April 1947.
Mr Albert Alexander
, Sheffield, Hillsborough
12:00,
2 April 1947
I have tried to explain before that that may be the view of some of the families concerned, but it is by no means the view of (a) families who have lost men in the war, (b) many of the men who have been compelled to serve longer because other men deserted their duties, and (c) of many other families who have had sons who served faithfully and well right through, and therefore do not wish special treatment to be given to deserters.