Mimeographed circular, titled 'Conscription. Statement by the National Council for Civil Liberties'.

On one side of a piece of foolscap paper (dimensions x cm). Forty-four lines. Text clear and complete. On aged paper with a little rusting from a paperclip. Letterhead includes names of the Council's officers in left-hand margin, including around sixty 'Vice-Presidents' (twenty ticked off), including E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley and H. G. Wells. The statement begins 'The Military Training Bill goes against the British democratic tradition of voluntary service and works a fundamental change in constitutional principles without a mandate from the people.' Attacks the government, which it states, has 'already attempted inroads upon long-established liberties, in particular by the use of a semi-official Press censorship (by means of D notices and in other ways)'. Warns of a danger that the Bill, 'coming as it does from such a Government, may be used at some future time as a step towards establishing in England an authoritarian regime.' Sets out five 'minimum necessary safeguards'.