Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strength, and constant replacements, the total number needed in the first year: 720,000. Even with deferments for World War II veterans, married men, doctors, scientists, etc., it ought not to be hard for the Government to fill that quota. It might be hard on some young men. The draft would be for a minimum of two years. The Government might register all U.S. men from 19 to 45, just to have everybody...
...could be sure of support for speedy enactment of ERP; the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted out its omnibus foreign-aid bill at week's end. But there was scarcely anything Harry Truman could have recommended that could have aroused more controversy than U.M.T. and a peacetime draft...
This week, Chancellor Hutchins' Committee to Frame a World Constitution had the answer Lindbergh wanted. The draft constitution called for:1) a "federal convention" composed of one popularly elected delegate for each 1,000,000 of the world's population; 2) a chief executive and a legislative council elected by the convention; 3) a grand tribunal and a supreme court; 4) a tribune to serve as the spokesman for minorities; 5) a chamber of guardians for control of the armed forces. The plan's cornerstone: "Universal government of justice, founded on the rights...
...document was published at a time in the world's history when the need for such a constitution was more desperate and the chances of its adoption more remote than ever. Not even the drafting committee itself had been able to agree on the noble synopsis of salvation, to which half a hundred sovereign nations would have to agree before it could become reality. The committee's own chairman, Philosopher Richard McKeon, refused to sign the draft because he disagreed with it. Said Hutchins: the report was something to talk about...
...Draft of 19 to 25-year olds and a three billion dollar expansion of the armed forces was demanded yesterday by the three armed forces cabinet members, who named Russia as a possible enemy...