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<p>[Page 15]</p><p>to do so. Thus, fewer and fewer will enlist voluntarily, so they [the authorities] will have to step up their propaganda and, if that doesn’t help, they will have to use the threat of unemployment more decisively than they did so far. One of the Tommies who supervise our road maintenance work told me more about this simple method. He claims that government enterprises, as well as many private-sector companies, do not hire workers who are not officially exempt from military service for one reason or other. In this manner they are creating artificial unemployment, and because men have to survive they eventually have no choice but to enlist. Thus, a certain number of recruits will always be available, but not in the big numbers that conscription would ensure. For many, especially young lads, the idea of a free trip to Europe is very tempting, and a 17 or 18- year-old lad who also belongs to our guards confirmed this recently by telling me, in these very words: [begin English quote] Oh, I never have been out of this bloody Australia, and</p>