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Died. Hugh Alfred Butler. 76, longtime (since 1941) Old Guard Republican Senator from Nebraska; of a stroke; in Washington. A tireless spokesman for Midwestern farm-bloc isolationism, wealthy (grain-trading) Hugh Butler, in 14 years in the Senate, came out against lend-lease, wartime extension of the draft act, reciprocal trade, Social Security, all Government subsidies, the Marshall Plan, Point Four and Korean intervention, last year reversed his field and became an ardent champion of Hawaiian statehood...
...weakest links" in the U.S. security chain. Early in the atomic program, Oppenheimer got a job at the University of California Radiation Laboratory for a young physicist with a known Communist background, one Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz. In 1943 the Army notified Lomanitz that he was to be drafted. Dr. Condon wrote Oppenheimer about this, as Oppenheimer put it, "in a great sense of outrage." Oppenheimer protested Lomanitz draft call (to no avail), and later tried to get Lomanitz released from the Army to return...
...rate of three or four a day, especially in "quiet" South Viet Nam; they were losing 200 rifles a month in one province without a single engagement; their public support had so dwindled that only 10,000 responded to last month's "emergency" 100,000-man draft...
With great fanfare, Italy's weekly Oggi began publishing sensational documents that suggested strange doings between London and Rome at the outset of World War II. A letter addressed to Mussolini and signed "Churchill" recognized Italy's "right to the Mediterranean." A draft Mussolini-Churchill "agreement" recognized "the grave possibility" of Britain's defeat by the Axis and asked that Italy safeguard British interests "at any future peace conference." There were other letters and papers, all showing low jinks by high figures...
Students seeking renewal of their official student deferments are advised to obtain special Selective Service Form 109 at the Selective Service Office in Philips Brooks House oar at University 3. The forms must be presented to the Registrar's Office in University 3, which then notifies the local draft boards...