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Secondly, there is a clause in the Senate bill which lets the Chief Executive defer 75,000 men for the next few years (until 1954) as the Defense Departments have requested. These men will begin their advanced education after finishing a four months "training period," and will owe the other 20 months of "service" which they can make up after their education. But the House bill does not even have this provision. Vinson would rather leave determination of deferments up to the military and the president; he does not like writing them into...
...argument and political fuss, the Defense Department is satisfied with the general result of Congress' relatively quick action. Vague as it may be, UMST is still possible: the Republicans lost their struggle to destroy it completely. The executive's hands are still untied so far as authority to defer students goes, though the Senate "availability" clause remains. And, most important, the draft has been extended indefinitely, as both the State and Defense Departments wanted...
...Many deferment proposals came to the committees. For an instance, President Conant advocated a "feed-back" system developed by the Association of American Universities. This would defer a limited number of men for completion of their education, with all the rest going into service immediately. Those deferred would have to serve later, but this plan would keep colleges from being wrecked altogether when UMST first goes into operation, taking all healthy students into the army. The "feed-back" program would stop after the first few years of UMST, by then enough men would be coming back into civilian life...
Neither House of Congress chose to write any immediate deferments into law. Their rules on deferments refer to UMST, which goes into operation as soon as the President can set up the system. But this may take a couple of years at best. Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-Tex.) thinks, in fact, that it will not start working for at least four years. Each House did leave in its bill, however, a statement (included in the present law) that the President may defer any and all groups of students as he sees fit. So the President will have...
...plan Truman will choose, or when he will make his decision. It is probable, however, that he will not act until Congress finishes its draft bills and sends them to the White House. His delay would be partly out of courtesy to the legislators, partly pure political acumen: to defer men while Congress is still debating the necessity of drafting them would hardly be wise...