Word: drafting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nationwide television-radio address prepared for delivery at a campaign rally at Hunt Armory, Eisenhower swung hard again at his Democratic rival, Adlai Stevenson, on many fronts. He launched a fresh attack on the Stevenson suggestion that Hbomb tests be halted and the military draft be ended, both under certain conditions...
Adlai is promising miracles: sounder money, but lower taxes; bigger federal spending, but a balanced budget; stronger defense, but end the draft. Barnum would exhibit him as the original magician if only Barnum were alive...
...Broadly suggested again that the U.S. should end the draft, which he described as "wasteful, inefficient, and often unfair." Then he hedged his bets, called for "a fresh and open-minded look at the weapons revolution and the whole problem of military manpower." ¶Proposed a moratorium on H-bomb tests; the U.S. can detect Russian violations, and if "the Russians don't go along, then at least the world will know we tried...
...period to twelve months had one great advantage: it would help to counteract the public hostility incurred by his Christian Democratic Party in passing conscription in the first place. (By last week the mayors of 135 German communities had refused to draw up lists of citizens eligible for the draft.) Internationally, however, it seemed likely to get West Germany into hot water. Even before the week was out the North Atlantic Council, meeting in an emergency session, publicly questioned the wisdom of the Chancellor's action and formally notified Bonn that military experts were doubtful that a twelve-month...
SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Oct. 3-Vice President Richard M. Nixon told reporters this afternoon that Adlai Stevenson was "naive and irresponsible." He made the charges in reference to the Democratic candidate's proposals on ending the draft and banning all hydrogen bomb tests...