Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Platform Oppose Draft...
...Jerome T. Kilty '50, Ernest M. Howell '47, William D. Brown '46, Mendy Weisgal 1G, Noel D. Lee '46, and Burton S. Glinn '46. Their brief platform states: "We want peace. We oppose the present war hysteria in the government and the press. We oppose UMT and the draft because they are war measures...
Tuberculosis and the revival of the national draft are the two greatest obstacles preventing the revival of effective student activity. While the College dollar cannot effect last week's State Department Authorization for the Greeks to call up 15,000 men for a national defense corps, contributions in the form of food can strike at the acute medical problem...
...trade." In the smudged lexicon of economic diplomacy, "freer" meant less free, not more free. The term indicated that the best anyone could hope for was a slow, gradual removal of the tangled barriers, prohibitions and nationalist restrictions. At Geneva last year 18 nations had managed to write a draft charter for the proposed International Trade Organization, a project which, in the somewhat startling words of Sir Stafford Cripps, "had never before been attempted except at the tower of Babel." At Havana, where the nations convened last November to mold the Geneva draft into final shape, Babel's spirit...
...bronze and marble conference halls of Cuba's Capitolio Nacional the delegates paid lip service to the ideals of the Geneva draft; but the real news was made in the cafés and lobbies where, over their frozen daiquiris, the delegates were busy planning more restrictions. The Moslem countries prepared a Middle East Bloc, to be developed by a series of government five-and twelve-year plans; the Argentines wanted a similar preference bloc in South America; the Soviet satellites (three of whom had sent representatives to Havana even though Russia had not) talked of further tightening their...