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Members of Congress blinked. So many men were exempted under current draft provisions that Selective Service was already having an all but impossible time filling the Army's monthly calls. "What I have to do," complained Selective Service Chief Lewis Hershey last week, "is to figure out how to raise an armed force . . . without taking anybody." If the Army needed men so badly, why didn't it call up the remaining National Guard divisions and Reserve units first...
Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey urged the House Armed Services Committee yesterday to recommend the drafting of 18-year-olds and cautioned it against any moves to delay taking them by lowering present draft physical requirements too much...
...Hershey said that assignments for limited-service men have to be selected ones. He also asserted that the armed services prefer to have rear-echelon personnel who can fight if necessary...
...Present Danger is backing, Conant said. That program would draft all men at 18, without exception, to serve up to 27 months. During the first few years of the program there would be some deferments for students already in college on the basis worked out by General Hershey's Advisory Committees (announced Monday in Washington...
...Both Hershey's proposal and Conant's, Trytten said, will be funneled through the National Security Resources Board which will make recommendations to the Administration. As soon as the new Congress convenes, Marshall will propose a program...