Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congressional emasculation of the much-debated draft act has provided the world with the year's best example of electioneering and buck-passing. Despite repeated pleas by President Truman and General Eisenhower for Congressional support of our world-wide commitments, the House of Representatives has apparently decided that reelection is more important than reconstruction...
...United Nations police force. Our military experts, headed by General Eisenhower, have stated unequivocally that the present demand can be filled only by Selective Service. Yet the Representatives choose to listen to their campaign managers rather than their conscience. The exemption of 18 to 20 year-olds from the draft would in itself reduce the act to impotency, because the drafting of 18-year-olds since 1943 has already caught men now in their early 20's. The substitution of recruiting for the draft will not remove the objections to an adolescent occupation force. If the volunteers...
Congress seems strangely unconcerned with the men now overseas, who must remain there for an indefinite time unless replacements are provided. By suspending the draft, the House has knocked the supports out from under policies and commitments it itself constructed. It is regrettable that the problems of the world cannot be confined to off-election years...
...land where human labor is incredibly cheap and abundant, the ricksha man serves as a draft animal. His daily income may be as high as $2 or even $3, but in China's feverishly inflated economy, the average ricksha man can buy less now than in prewar times when his income was measured in pennies. He often eats only two meals a day-one of rice and one of congee (millet or rice gruel), with salted turnips and bean curd now & then, meat once or twice a year. On this fuel, if he is not yet slowed by tuberculosis...
Chairman Carl Vinson, D., Ga., of the Naval Affairs Committee, said he would offer a proposal to continue the draft until February 15, 1947, but suspend inductions from May 15 to October 15 while the Army and Navy "conducted an intensive voluntary recruitment program...