Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draft has been subjected to every kind of criticism since its enactment last June; Mr. Conant's opposition springs from his belief that it is discriminatory. He has said that the wide discretion vested in local boards may bring undesirable and unfair pressure upon them. By deferring college students until the end of their academic year and exempting married men, he feels that the law will turn both institutions into havens for draft dodgers. And drafting a man in the middle of his college career is disruptive not only to his education but also to the college or university itself...
...argument whether or not U.M.T. is more desirable than the Draft could be carried on endlessly. The type of U.M.T. which Mr. Conant envisions, however, does not seem the best answer. Evening drill for ten years would put serious restrictions on the trainee's mobility; his work, his vacations, whether or not he travels would all depend on his local unit. The value of weekly training from a military stand-point might well be compared to Boy Scouting; it would be enormously expensive and highly complicated to set up; and, as a ten-year indoctrination program, it is wide open...
...along prevailing Republican lines, and this would be a bad enough accusation to alienate many of his constituents were it not for the question of foreign policy. Here again, O'Brien follows the Wallace line in condemning Marshall Plan administration, aid to Greece, Turkey and China, and the peacetime draft, which is almost certainly not the majority viewpoint in any district...
...outlook of Mr. Dulles in Albany closely matches the views of Secretary Marshall in Washington. In the past year, the CRIMSON has objected to the Administration's policy reversal on Palestine, and its new-found warmth for Franco. The CRIMSON has also doubted the wisdom of a peace-time draft. However, it is unlikely that Mr. Dewey's advisers would lead him to change these unfortunate policies. At the same time, Mr. Wallace's ideas on foreign affairs must be rejected; they have degenerated into a stubborn apology for Soviet Russia...
...Dewey's opponent has little of the Governor's efficient manner. Under great tension, Mr. Truman has frequently made serious errors, such as his angry request to Congress for the power to draft striking railroad workers. His administration has not been smooth. But what Mr. Truman stands for in the way of domestic institutions, and what he has stood for ever since he entered the White House, are measures of greater importance to the prosperity of the nation than efficiency for efficiency's sake. In January, 1946, the President asked Congress for minimum wage and full employment legislation...