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...noted with interest in your Oct. 16 issue that General Hershey says: "Those veterans still within the draft age couldn't have seen much service." He should have defined "much...
...headline and story about draft policy in Thursday's CRIMSON gave an erroneous impression of my views. I am not necessarily opposed to the plan approved in principle by General Hershey or in favor of any other specific plan at this stage of the discussion. The problem is exceedingly, difficult and any answer to it will be open to serious objections. I don't know what the answer should be and was simply trying to point to pros and cons and suggest an alternative policy which also has serious drawbacks...
With the present holes in Hershey's draft dragnet, the armed forces had little hope of reaching the 3,000,000 men the President had ordered the Joint Chiefs of Staff to have under arms by next June. When the Korean war began, there were 1,400,000 men & women in the armed forces. Since then, 400,000 draftees, reserves and guardsmen have been called up. But General Omar Bradley estimated that the services would fall short of the June goal by about 10%. Pentagon pessimists thought it would be twice that...
Major General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, has asked the College Board testing service in Princeton to plan an examination for college students by which draft boards can determine whom to defer, the CRIMSON learned last night...
...Hershey consulted with the College Board outfit in August, Richard Sullivan, assistant director of the testing service said, after he had been urged to examine that possibilities of a classification test by a panel of six committees of university leaders, representing different fields of learning...