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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...states: "Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to require any person to be subject to combatant training and service in the land or naval forces of the United States who, by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to war in any form." [Sec. 5 (g)]. There are two significant phrases in this passage. The first, "by reason of religious training and belief," is ambiguous. Can anyone be sure what origins of "training and belief" are at the bottom of his most sincere and fundamental convictions? According to informed opinion, the interpretation of this clause will...
...United States, and therefore the following clause was inserted: "Persons inducted into the land forces of the United States under this Act shall not be employed beyond the limits of the Western Hemisphere except in the Territories and possessions of the United States, including the Phillippine Islands." [Sec. 3 (o)]. The majority of people supporting the Act would have opposed it without this assurance that it was to be purely a measure of Hemisphere defense...
...Sec. 2, Selective Training and Service...
...June 1937 the last total solar eclipse, longest in more than twelve centuries (7 min. 4 sec. at maximum), was mostly wasted on the Pacific Ocean, where science could not study it. Last week a good enough eclipse (more than four minutes) traveled clear across South America, but it also was wasted. Two parties of U. S. scientists who traveled all the way to the shadow belt with their equipment got virtually no results because clouds veiled the blackened sun. Next chance for science : 1941 in central Asia...
...Sec. 2, Selective Training and Service...