Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should like to correct an error which appeared in Friday's CRIMSON article on the United Anti-Draft Committee. The article states, "It will include those who oppose selective service...on political grounds such as World Federalists and YPH men." Although there are undoubtedly some World Federalists who are against the draft, and some who are for it, World Federalists do not officially either oppose it or support it. Neither the Harvard World Federalists nor the United World Federalists, the national organizations, have taken any position on this question, feeling that the main efforts of their groups should be directed...
WASHINGTON, January 13--All draft calls were "frozen" tonight by Selective Service Director Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, according to an Associated Press dispatch. He took the action following an earlier announcement that no men would be called during February and March...
Selective Service Headquarters were unwilling to predict yesterday whether the draft would definitely be called off and the boards closed...
Voluntary enlistments and re-enlistments are currently coming in at the rate of 35,000 a month. If this flow keeps up, the Army will easily stay at its quota without issuing any draft calls, the CRIMSON learned...
President Truman's budget message has virtually blocked the draft until July, 1950, National Army Headquarters told the CRIMSON last night...