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Hidden Cause, Open Effect. For the real reasons, the U.S. public might have to wait months. But to learn its effects on the U.S. home, it had to wait only one day. Next afternoon Major General Lewis B. Hershey laid it on the table before the House Committee...
Most of the men inducted into the armed forces in the next two or three months, said Draft Director Hershey, will be married men with children. Reason: "There will be nobody left to induct...
Bottom of the Barrel. The U.S. was finally scraping the bottom of its manpower barrel. Planning to induct about 400,000 men a month, it has already found that the leavings are thin indeed. General Hershey reported that rejections (mainly for physical and occupational reasons) already run from 35 to 40%, are expected to increase. By the end of the year only 3,000,000 fit men in the 18-37 age bracket will be left in civilian life...
Said General Brown: "I understand that national headquarters of Selective Service looks with favor on Moral Re-Armament." He had precedent: Major General Lewis B. Hershey, national draft director, had granted a defense-occupation deferment to an MRA worker in June...
Said General Hershey: "No group deferments will be granted MRA or any other group." He also said that his 1941 finding that Buchmanism was "an essential element of our national-defense program" was "no endorsement of the work or policies of this movement...