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Under the pseudonym National Serviceman, Anthony Howard, who would become editor of the New Statesman in 1972, wrote a number of articles for the magazine, exposing the brutality and tedium of his experience and those of others. [...] the point that its defenders never tire of making is concerned with the way it keeps young men out of the milk bars and off the raspberry shakes; and it would be astonishing indeed if the regular casting of whole generations into a hierarchic mould left no impression.
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A National Serviceman's Postscript
Anthony Howard
Until 1 January 1961, national service was mandatory in Britain. Under the pseudonym National Serviceman, Anthony Howard, who would become editor of the New Statesman in 1972, wrote a number of articles for the magazine, exposing the brutality and tedium of his experience and thos...See the full content of this document
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