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...same high college officials who reported Eisenhower's feelings on the draft also stated that other high military men can be expected to back the Conant plan against Universal Military Training and over the program proposed by General Hershey's Advisory Committees. The official asked not to be identified at this time...
...present Conant's program is in direct opposition to three others: 1) the Administration's Universal Military Training plan (HR 9411), which calls for a partly-civilian controlled Corps separate from the Services; 2) the plan tacitly approved by General Hershey; and 3) a proposal of the American Council on Education which would defer men on the basis of the test and state quotas...
...veteran of three years service and still under 26. I saw 2½ years service overseas . . . This may not seem like a long time to General Hershey sitting behind a desk in Washington...
...years service, two bloody campaigns (Peleliu and Okinawa), and received two wounds (one in each campaign), who will not be 25 years old until next month, and who knows that a lot of my buddies were my age or younger ... I hope you will print this letter so that Hershey's remark may at least be placed in perspective. It was precisely the youngsters who were doing the bloody work-so they only saw two years service (a short time...
...practical purposes U.M.T., as it was being considered, was not a feeder system anyone could depend on. Selective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey wanted, instead, six months' basic training followed by two solid years in the ranks. This would be U.M.S. (Universal Military Service), not U.M.T. It also had the backing of Marine Reserve Brigadier General Melvin Maas, ex-Congressman from Minnesota, who last week was named to a Pentagon committee to restudy the whole reserve problem. "It will be expensive as hell," Maas observed. "But we ought to be able to afford it if the Russians...