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The Committee, which includes presidents of seven universities, has supported the U.M.S program as outlined by the Association of American Universities. This includes a draft of all men at age 18 for two years of military service, with some sort of deferment system to be used until there are enough...
The period of grey mobilization, as it was complacently called, could not go on much longer. So long as sacrifices were not being demanded of everybody, the Administration was finding it hard to demand them of anybody. Top men in industry and the professions had been turning down Government posts...
Concerns representing nearly all the professions and many sorts of business concerns responded and submitted detailed qualifications for jobs and added summary descriptions of them.
This country is now involved in a war. It will be involved in war--hot or cold--for many years, perhaps many decades to come. So runs the reasoning of these plotting the country's policy, and there is little basis for disagreeing with them. Somehow the nation must provide...
Advocates of deferments, however, argue that U.M.S. would get only 18-year-olds for the army, that the services would have to draft experts, technicians, and doctors twice--once when they are 18 and again after they have received their professional training. During the first two years of U.M.S., colleges...