Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London next August. The world's mental health, the lunchers had heard, is not good. Said Dr. (formerly Brigadier General) William C. Menninger, head of Army psychiatry during World War II: "We had become aware that in the Army one out of eight men who came before the draft boards had to be rejected for mental illness . .'-. 62% in the veterans' hospitals are psychiatric problems. Half of our hospital beds in America are devoted to mental illness. We have many, many evidences of a sick world ... We wish we knew why . . . these things occur...
Under the surface, however, the Committee is very much alive. In fact, with the exception of two sections of financial survey and miscellaneous material which have not as yet been drawn up, the final draft of its report has been complete and ready for publication since March. It reaches certain definite conclusions and makes several constructive recommendations. Every indication points to its making a real contribution toward improving the Hygiene Department...
Though the final tally on the draft alone for the entire University resulted in 58 to 42 percent support in the various schools, the combined program for both a draft and a Universal Military Training program as well met with the disapproval of 69 out of 100 men questioned...
Veterans overwhelmingly indicated that they believed the nation's security demands conscription once again at this time. Seventy-one percent of vets throughout the University favored selective service, while in the Graduate Schools a 79 percent total suggested the need for a draft...
...veterans were less in favor of the pending legislation with only 54 percent supporting its passage, while those in the Graduate Schools evidenced least enthusiasm for a draft with 51 percent opposed to the measure...