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...Southern Democrats in line for the party presidential slate. Advisory committee members confidently predicted that the national committee and the 1956 convention would follow their recommendation, and thereby bury the old issue. But within three days the lid of the coffin snapped open, and the body of the loyalty oath bounced...
Under the revised oath, if an advanced student notes that he had belonged to a subversive group, he is denied a uniform until the military department has completed a full investigation...
...Department of Defense yesterday announced that it has radically revised its ROTC policy by altering the Loyalty Oath required of all students in the three ROTC groups--Army, Navy, and Air Force...
...main criticism was that students of land grant colleges, where ROTC is compulsory for two years, were often discriminated against by this old oath. If a student put down on his questionnaire that he had belonged to a subversive group, he was deprived of his uniform, but was forced to take a similar "military training" course by himself...
...student refused to take this alternate training, he was faced with expulsion. Critics argued that the old oath should just be given to students who had signified their willingness to continue in ROTC after their sophomore year...