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Pierre Van Paassen, no Jew but a longtime friend of Zionism, set up his committee to seek, through U.S. pressure, what Britain has thus far refused. Britain permits Jews in Palestine to enlist as individuals (20,000 have); it has set up several all-Jewish regiments. But again last week it balked at an independent Jewish Army-largely because the British must also consider the sympathies of 30,000,000 Middle Eastern Arabs...
...sudden closing of enlistments sent bewildered students "allocating" themselves in all directions. Living on rumors and inconclusive official statements since September, they were asked to decide whether or not to enlist without knowing how or when the present semester would end. From patting them on the head with one hand and handing them a commission with the other, the government had changed to a policy of crating them all in one box to be shoved off the cliff at some indeterminate date. The closing of the various reserves and Specialists' Corps should have been synchronized with the announcement of plans...
...stop another leak in the manpower pool, men between 18 and 38 will no longer be permitted to enlist, in either Army or Navy. And the draft will no longer take men over 38, who are almost invariably more useful in industry...
Although no permanent action can be taken until the Bureau receives definite orders from the War Department, Perkins said that no student over 18 years old who has not already applied would be able to enlist in any of the reserve programs...
Credit under such a plan can only be claimed if the draft is imminent or if the student wishes to enlist a week or so before his induction in order to select his favorite arm of the service...