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Extracts from Adjutant-General Learnard's orders follow...
...these ages. Among them is much of the material which experience has shown best able to stand the strain of battle. The disturbance of their education, though most unfortunate, is less threatening to the country than the disruption of economic and industrial conditions which would follow the taking of men in the ages beyond the present draft limit. Of course it will not become a proper measure until after the largest possible numbers have been drawn to the colors from among the men of the existing draft ages, but if, when this has been done, need is still extant...
...annoying and highly humiliating to constantly meet privates from one's company of last summer now wearing the uniform of a captain. After telling a man to cover in file for four long months it is insufferable to find him a leader of men, while you still shrick "Follow me" to a motley array on the banks of the River Charles. All of which causes gloom...
Controversies of numerous kinds and of varying importance follow our participation in war. There is at present some discussion as to whether American soldiers and sailors be allowed to wear medals offered by foreign governments. France has given war crosses to those who withstood the first German raid, but the recipients, although appreciating the honor, are warned not to wear them. Instead, they shall evidently be forced to put them in a glass case, under lock and key. No doubt seems to exist that such a prohibition is constitutional. From the point of view of the United States...
...archaic stipulation may be legally correct, but it may be diplomatically wrong. Our prohibitions, where they are not to our advantage, should not appear to lessen an appreciation of France's gifts. The customary practice among our allies is to wear such medals, and we are expected to follow a similar policy. Let not Frenchmen think that we are indifferent to their highly prized rewards. Although we do not doubt the legality of the discussed restriction, yet we believe it is at present archaic and tactless...