Word: draft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson's proposals that we halt H-bomb tests and think about ending the draft deserve praise because these statements made campaign issues out of national defense problems heretofore clouded in "bi-partisan" obscurity. But neither Stevenson's words not the Eisenhower administration's replies give any indication that a very necessary debate on defense policies will take place before November...
Defense is the most extensive activity in which the national government engages, and its operation directly affects the careers of millions of Americans, especially young men of draft age. On its proper management our survival depends. The questions of what weapons and how many men to use are highly technical and might seem too involved for the average voter to assess...
...Eisenhower administration's policy changes have been made partly in response to a tremendous popular impatience with the seemingly endless complications in which Kora involved the U.S. On the surface, Steven-son's draft proposal seems an attempt to employ the same feeling as a Democratic vote-getter. If it were only that, the draft proposal would be a serious abandonment of leadership. But Stevenson, in his recent Washington press conference, went much further and coupled the idea with a statement outlining the need for new manpower policies in a period of continuing crisis...
...force, not dependent on a constant stream of raw recruits brought in, unwilling, for two years of training that rapid technological change may make obsolete. Defense department figures, which show a much higher rate of enlistment and re-enlistment in recent years may indicate the possibility of ending the draft. But they may also indicate nothing. The compulsion of the draft, President Eisenhower has said, is a big factor in these enlistments. It must be kept as an inducement...
...draft was meant to fall on all young men equally, not to serve as a stop-gap prod to enlistment. Many young men can today avoid military service. The full needs of the Armed services were met last year with 507,000 draftees and volunteers out of a pool of one million of draft age. The pool will get larger and larger, and those drafted or volunteering will be a smaller proportion than they...