Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army-Navy-Air Force Journal claimed that "forthcoming draft calls will be reduced substantially as a result of cutbacks in Army manpower this year...
This comes in partial contradiction to the statements of Assistant Secretary of Defense John A. Hannah, who recently told reporters that the draft would not only continue for the next six years, but that there would be little possibility of any cuts in the monthly quotas...
...latest word from the Pentagon precludes these figures, and there almost undoubtedly will be a considerable drop in the draft call," a spokesman for the Journal said yesterday...
...Monthly draft calls, previously believed on their way up, will probably be cut substantially starting in February, the unofficial armed services magazine predicted yesterday...
...That is way the Selective Service Act will have to be continued in effect, much as everyone would like to dispense with the draft; that is why I believe we connot consider instituting a kind of universal military training, as was contemplated and hoped a few years ago; that is why every young man who is qualified mentally and physically must look forward to at least two years of military service for years to come...