Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About your Feb. 11 story on "draft dodgers" in the National Guard. "Engine Charlie" has gone too far. Let him check up on the officers and enlisted men who had duty in World War II and who were called up for active duty in the summer of 1950. When my particular unit was called up, we had a master sergeant who had seen action in France in 1917-18. I suppose he was dodging the draft too. How about asking Wilson about the draft dodgers who are not coming back from Korea...
...Ellard A. Walsh also took another swipe at Secretary of Defense Wilson for having said that during the Korean War the Guard was a sort of "draft-dodging" haven...
...House Armed Services subcommittee to support the Administration's new program requiring six months' active-duty training for all National Guard recruits after April 1. Though he applied none of the frankness of Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, who had allowed that the Guard was a draft-dodging business during the Korean war (TIME, Feb. 11), Paratrooper Taylor nevertheless politely cited evidence to prove the point that Engine Charlie was trying to make when he stirred up the hornets: the National Guard is not as good as it ought...
...Wolfgang Harich, charging that the young teacher had acted under the influence of "reactionaries" in Hungary and Poland. A handsome, soft-looking youngster in Berlin's World War II "high society," Harich had studied philosophy, turned Buddhist under the influence of Japanese embassy friends, and later, when the draft caught up with him, deserted the German army. A friendly general saved him from being shot, and he turned Roman Catholic. After the Russians came, he switched to Marxism, was made lecturer in historical materialism at Humboldt...
...student's minds and in our own." He cited three main problems in the minds of those who want counselling: military service, graduate school, and a career. Concerning the first problem, Student Placement feels that it has the best collection of information about the armed services and the draft in the college. "People are just delaying their ideas about the military," Crooks said, "and we feel we can give them the advice they need...