Word: drafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adlai Stevenson, by insisting on making a primary issue of stopping the H-bomb tests and eliminating the draft, is playing the Russians' game. Any time Moscow agrees with any of our policies, they cannot be beneficial...
...years," i.e., Ike would not finish his term in office. Unfortunately for Adlai Stevenson and his place in U.S. political history, the charges he flung in the closing hours of the 1956 campaign may be remembered just as long as his stubbornly defended, politically disastrous arguments on ending the draft and calling off H-bomb tests by agreement with Russia and other atomic powers...
...military policy too, the Democratic stand needs clarification. Stevenson's recent expressed hope that the manpower draft can be ended would seem in complete contrast with his party's normal orientation toward a program of balanced military preparedness. But a professional army composed of 20-year men, on examination, actually seems more reliable than a conscript army. Such an army would be less costly and more effective, Stevenson feels, because it would not be crippled by the need to retrain completely every two years. In addition, a highly mobile professionalized land force would be better able to cope with...
...Communist empire, and they suggest that we begin ... by trusting our national safety to agreements that have no effective safeguards and no controls. They urge a bold American defense of freedom, and they urge us to try achieving this by starting to plan an end to our military draft . . . There is no political campaign that justifies the declaration of a moratorium on common sense...
...basic economic need is a double agrarian reform: 1) an education program to teach ranchers how to conserve their soil and get a richer return from it, and 2) a shift of welfare-state burdens from the countryside to the cities. Instead, the politicos in Montevideo, hoping that forced-draft industrialization will eventually rescue the economy, have spun an increasingly tangled web of stopgaps, subsidies and controls...