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...needs clarification. Stevenson's recent expressed hope that the manpower draft can be ended would seem in complete contrast with his party's normal orientation toward a program of balanced military preparedness. But a professional army composed of 20-year men, on examination, actually seems more reliable than a conscript army. Such an army would be less costly and more effective, Stevenson feels, because it would not be crippled by the need to retrain completely every two years. In addition, a highly mobile professionalized land force would be better able to cope with the problems of limited wars like Korea...
...Fiinfzehn-the model number (0-8-15) of the Wehrmacht service pistol-which in Germany is a term roughly equivalent to G.I. The book snickered behind the officers' ramrod backs, put in a plea for the dignity of the individual in uniform, and demonstrated hilariously how a canny conscript like Gunner Asch could win at the old army game simply by hiding behind regulations. Old army pros denounced it, and the publisher's office was ransacked by hoodlums. But Gunner Asch became the talk of the land and Null-Acht-Funfzehn the bestselling novel of postwar West Germany...
Songs and Ballads of America's Wars (Frank Warner; Elektra). An informal collection of old pulse-bumpers, many of them all but forgotten. They range from Felix the Soldier, a delightfully wry recollection of the French and Indian War by a conscript Irishman, to such truculent songs of the Confederacy as The Bonnie Blue Flag and The Old Unreconstructed...
...some Frenchmen who have not unlearned the past, and in the minds of some Vietnamese who will not forget it. It is a civil war, too: countryman fighting countryman, often not because of differing convictions but because of the accident of geography and which side was there to conscript him. The Vietnamese nationalists tell you that half or more of the Viet Minh fighters they face are not Communists but other nationalists, who are persuaded of the need to drive the French out. The Vietnamese themselves are positive that the French must give them their independence...
...show. Johnston-Buffett & Co. made 75,000 telephone calls for Taft, mailed 60,000 pieces of literature, showing how to write in his name. Buffett appealed to the considerable isolationist sentiment in Nebraska. Said he: "Eisenhower ... is the candidate of those who would have American boys die as conscript cannon-fodder thousands of miles across the ocean...