Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleet's views directly oppose those of Draft Director Lewis B. Hershey who stated at the end of January that he was opposed to proposals for lengthening the draft requirement from 24 to 36 months...
General James A. Van Fleet said yesterday to the House Armed Services Committee that he feels the present two-year draft period should be extended six or 12 months...
...Ford Frick will have to rule on the propriety of having a college team put smack into a major league farm system. Will this violate the restrictions on dealing with amateurs? What minor league classification will Harvard be put into? Will Harvard players be subject to the annual player draft? Can the Cards send us players on option? Can they step in and shuffle the team's personnel if they aren't satisfied with its performance...
...immediate cause of the trouble was an unpopular government order extending Denmark's draft period from 12 to 18 months. Many young Danes resent and resist their tiny nation's undertaking to provide three divisions for NATO forces. Another cause was the widespread Danish belief that soldiering itself is an uncouth and unnecessary profession, ill-suited to a nation that has not waged war since 1864.* Item: last year a veteran sergeant major who offended his rookies by using "rude and indecent language" was beaten badly by ten of his men. From a court martial...
...rank & file. In the pocket of one mutineer, investigators found a letter from a Communist youth organizer: "Comrade . . . great things are happening. I want to meet you to discuss these things." Palle Voigt, editor of two Communist magazines that had urged the troops to resist an extension of the draft, was arrested on charges of inciting rebellion. The trouble, believed Danish Defense Minister Harald Petersen, "was obviously directed from abroad...