Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy to see why Worthy does not feel kindly, personally or racially, toward official Washington. He feels that the State Department, through security officer Robert Cartwright, attempted to smear him by implying that his conscientious objection in 1944 was a draft-dodging device. Worthy believes that this is simply clouding the issue of his constitutional right to a passport and was very gratified to hear that Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming had said "Worthy's reputation as a citizen is unsullied, and the State Department owes him an apology...
Nieman Fellow William Worthy, correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American, whose recent journey into Communist China has provoked much controversy in Washington, has clarified his position in the dispute over his wartime draft status in the Capital...
...announcement of Britain's radical military realignment promises to affect gravely military planning throughout the NATO nations. This move was motivated principally by economic difficulties compounded by the Suez invasion. In an attempt to lower taxes, the government plans to halve military manpower by 1960 and eliminate the draft by withdrawing troops from Libya, Korea, and Germany in particular. The government views its present program, undertaken in 1950 under the pressure of Korean conflict, as ill-adapted to the present need for long-range planning. Prime Minister Macmillan argues, further, that an economically burdened England could never be the defensive...
...question of Worthy's draft record was raised last week during testimony by Robert Cartwright, a high State Department official. Cartwright said that a man named William Worthy pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court at Philadelphia in June, 1944 to charges of failing to report to a camp for conscientious objectors. Cartwright also said that this man had served one day in jail and later had gone to the camp...
Worthy denied all of Mr. Cartwright's allegations, while admitting that a Boston draft board had classified him as a conscientious objector in 1943. He charged the State Department with "trying to becloud the issue of freedom of movement and freedom of the press by raising an irrelevant matter...