Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wait until the fall before entering, on the theory that it is better for a class to enter as a unit. The fate of this ruling now lies, according to Dean Buck and Gummere, largely in the lap of Congress, and depends on the action they take on the draft. If by May 15 Selective Service Boards are continuing to draft 18 year olds, then the admission policy may be changed to allow high school seniors to get one or two terms in the College before they are called. "We can't close the doors to Freshmen," the Provost said...
Said General Eisenhower to Congress: "Gentlemen . . . any gamble with the national security of the United States at this time is a gamble with the peace and security of the world." Despite this and other draft-extension pleas from President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes, Congress could hardly bring itself to touch such "dangerous" legislation in an election year. But if an extension were not voted by May 15, the U.S. would have no draft...
With a desperate Kamikaze air, the Senate Military Affairs Committee last week reported a bill extending the draft for a year. The bill, which differed little from the existing draft law, was okayed by the Army. But it horrified Colorado's lumbering Senator Ed Johnson. Cried he: "Only beardless youths will be conscripted. . . ." Every "boy" drafted will be "thrown in the path of diseased prostitutes and lewd women" in the "foulest human cesspools...
...House seemed to agree with Senator Johnson. When its bill to extend the draft for nine months reached the floor, members fell to clubbing it with amendments. Two blows were enough to reduce it to imbecility: 1) an amendment raising the draft age from 18 to 20; 2) an amendment to suspend all inductions between...
...draft peace treaties for Germany's defeated satellites. In London, the Deputy Foreign Ministers had vainly tried it, six days a week, for twelve weeks. They failed because Russia wanted 1) to consolidate her already pre-eminent position in the Balkans, and 2) to push on into the Mediterranean. The Western powers were resisting that advance...