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More important, the directive helped divert Congress from its primary and necessary task, the establishment of Universal Military Service and Training. The bill on which the House will vote today would force the President to re-submit U. M. S. T. for Congressional approval after he had drawn up a complete plan for the program. It does not suspend Selective Service--a system that was adequate so long as the armed forces could be kept up to strength with volunteers but cannot handle equitably the problems of long- term partial mobilizations...
...being rich . . . Writers with a sense of duty warn of the disaster we are headed for through our bragging folly, and shortsightedness; but no one pays any attention. The whirligig of clothes, horses and refrigerators spins on. Now we have reached perfection. We bring in dwarfs and freaks to divert us ... fighters with bellies like jugs, and women who wiggle their hips in a different rhythm from the rest of the body...
...Committee added, "We learned belatedly in the first World War and again in the second, that successful defense of the United States must be made in Europe." Russian control of the continent, the group argued, would end England's role as an "unsinkable aircraft carrier," divert the Middle East's oil to the Soviet Union, and turn over to Russia the world's richest uranium source in the Belgian Congo...
...report also recommends extension of the Concord Turnpike to Lechmere Square to divert many of the 36,000 cars and 6,000 trucks passing the Square daily. Such rerouting, the survey states, "would enhance the safety and attractiveness of the Square as a shopping center...
...with China is unthinkable; it would be a sinkhole of Western strength, a "trap" plotted in Moscow to divert the West from defense of Europe...