Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of the U.S. armed forces in Western Germany, I have observed that many of my fellow soldiers as well as a large majority of thinking Germans were shocked by Stevenson's statement on the draft. This is not the time for halting statesmanship or cheap appeals for mother votes. Give...
Down to the Line. Candidate Stevenson had firmly grasped an issue that seemed to be pulling him backward. The issue: national defense, with special reference to ending hydrogen bomb tests (see below) and the military draft. In no state did TIME correspondents last week find Stevenson gaining because of his national defense proposals. In several, the correspondents found that Adlai had been hurt, because former Stevensonites seemed more willing to trust the nation's defense to Dwight Eisenhower...
...chat about campaign issues with seven ladies chosen by G.O.P. Assistant Chairman Bertha Adkins. The special show had been geared for women voters; nudging The Big Payoff from its daily spot, Ike and his questioners aimed at women across the nation. The questions were routine-what about the draft, the cost of living, the chance of another depression? But Ike caught the spirit of the occasion, with easy grace enjoyed a 29-minute parlor chat, gave the ladies some succinct answers for housewives to ponder; e.g., "All of the economic factors . . . point toward a continuation of good times." And though...
...Tiger Tank. Like a great many other Germans, Defense Minister Strauss learned about armies the hard way. The butcher's son dodged the early Nazi draft by entering Munich University, where he topped the examination lists, joined a Catholic students' organization and brawled with young Nazis. When the call-up for World War II carne in 1939, he talked himself out of the infantry ("Because I don't like walking") and into the artillery. He was almost court-martialed for calling his uniform a Klufterl (a childish masquerade). But he served in Poland, France, Russia...
...Smith is inclined to believe that he is too old to embark on a new career of rebuilding the Tory Party. But Smith has not yet said that he would refuse the nomination, and many Tories are hopeful that he may still be available for a genuine draft call at their convention next month. The Liberals are just as hopeful that he will not. Said a Liberal Cabinet minister, very much off the record: "He is the one man we couldn't figure out how to attack...