Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Adlai Stevenson (see below), Ike last week used the forum of his press conference for jab after jab at his Democratic opponent. Then, within 24 hours, he delivered two roundhouse punches: the White House released two documents berating Stevenson for his stand on H-bomb testing and the draft...
Ending the Draft. For 20 years or more our Government alternated between costly peaks in years of military crisis and starving valleys in years of apparent calm. Twice in this generation relaxations of America's military strength have been followed by costly wars...
...proposals tossed around during the warmup period of the campaign, two touch directly on the fundamental issue of U.S. security. These are Adlai Stevenson's urgings that 1) the U.S. take the lead in ending H-bomb tests, and 2) the U.S. take steps to end the draft. Last week President Eisenhower replied in two prepared statements. Excerpts...
West Germany's reluctance, voiced by Konrad Adenauer, to accept a military draft is but a symptom, though an important one, of feelings in France and Holland. Adenauer reasons that if America can afford to institute a manpower cut that will spell pulling out of our European bases, Germany need not meet its violently unpopular quota of 500,000 men in arms...
Neither side has so far presented fully persuasive arguments, but Stevenson's statements indicate that he is more ready to plan creatively to end the present confusion on the draft. They also indicate that Stevenson does not favour the unfortunate commitment to "massive retaliation." If the Democratic nominee were to debate the issue fully, he could avoid the current charges of demogoguery and in addition do the country a service...