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In June, Selective Service will start giving some 60 conchies the stiff Army and Marine parachute training course.

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England's treatment of her "conchies" is in strong contrast with France's.

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Out of 300,000 young men of conscription age, 4,338 "conchies" had registered.

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In many cases the "conchies" were coached in advance by pacifist bodies�the Peace Pledge Union, the Fellowship of Reconciliation�whose representatives sat in the courtrooms.

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Recent cracks by and to "conchies": > A Glasgow applicant: "The Bible and Tolstoy led me to the conclusion that war is sinful and futile."

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