Word: drafts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committees' recommendations are accepted, Selective Service Headquarters in Washington will send them to all boards as a bases for calling up men. But they would not be mandatory procedure for the local draft officials...
Since the Army cut its draft quotas this week, individual boards would probably use the proposals and not draft most college students...
...five new committees, working under the direction of Dr. M.H. Trytten, member of the National Research Council, will soon meet jointly and pool their recommendations. Then they will present their report to draft officials...
Their immediate goal in the fight against the draft, according to YPH president Jerry Gordon, is to enlist the leaders of undergraduate and graduate organizations as active members of a United Anti-Draft Committee, and to collect as many signatures as possible on a petition to be sent to President Truman. A mass "stop-the-draft" rally will be held before the Christmas vacation, and a series of faculty-and-student debates are being planned...
While uniting with other groups in the broad campaign to stop the machinery of the draft immediately and achieve ultimate repeal of the draft law, YPH will also pursue an independent educational campaign, Gordon stated. This campaign, he claimed, will reflect the Progressive attitude on the "Wall Street" and other aspects of militarization, and include an indictment of President Conant's recent plea for a ten-year military training plan...