Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Registration for the peacetime draft-which many an American had once thought would bring widespread protests -ended last week. Except for some noisy picketing, it had stirred up no fuss at all. But it had helped bolster the Army before even a single man was inducted. It had upped recruiting to the highest point since the wartime draft ended...
...failure of the peace-time draft to call up the extra men admitted late last spring to keep the Class of '52 at a normal level...
...Draft Falls...
...million. General Lucius Clay, who considers Western Germany all-important to European recovery, angrily decided that the figure was too low, that Bizonia was being treated as OEEC's ugly duckling. Lawrence Wilkinson, Clay's man in Paris, flatly refused to ratify the draft agreement...
...Montreal's 267-lb. mayor, Ca-millien Houde (who spent some of the war years in a Canadian concentration camp for advising French Canadians not to register for the draft), De Bernonville's war record didn't look so bad. Houde and his nationalist friends were cooking up a new political party, Le Parti Canadien. De Bernonville looked like just what they needed to bring French Canadian voters running. He was a Roman Catholic. He could be made to seem a martyr to Ottawa's "implacable hatred" for Frenchmen and Roman Catholics...