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...soldier vote law. When the Representatives finish their deliberations beneath the Sacred Cod on the wall, and the State Senate concurs, Massachusetts will probably have the most intelligent - and non-controversial - soldier vote law in the U.S. Anyone in the family can get a ballot sent to a serviceman. Even a constitutional requirement that new voters must be able to read the State Constitution in English will cause no trouble. Five lines of the Constitution will be printed on the ballot envelope. A sergeant on the remotest Pacific atoll will be witness enough that a soldier can read...
...Koerner also proposed that every serviceman's discharge papers state whether or not he is sterile. Purpose: to prevent the unhappiness caused when sterile people marry with the hope of having children. Servicemen will probably not like Dr. Koerner's proposal. Reasons: 1) though the Army's personnel files are confidential, most men would not like to have their sterility a matter of record; 2) legal complications. Sterility may be grounds for divorce. An angry wife could force her sterile husband to produce his discharge paper in court to prove that he knew he was sterile before...
Republicans, working Harlem with success for the first time in years, heard better explanations. What had the hamstrung Fair Employment Practices Commission really done for the Negro worker? How fair a break were Negroes getting in the Armed Services? Republicans heard of many a Negro serviceman returning in anger to Harlem, there to spread dissatisfaction. Often the returned Negro soldier was angry at segregation in Army camps, at the Navy's unabashed racial snobbishness, at the Negro's "token" representation on the fighting fronts. The Negroes who helped elect a Republican Governor last November in Kentucky...
Every day some U.S. serviceman, coming out of battle or out of anesthesia, realizes that he is blind, that ahead of him stretches a lifetime of darkness. To the parents of one such blinded soldier Brigadier General Paul R. Hawley, chief U.S. Army surgeon for the European Theater, recently wrote a letter (published in the New York Herald Tribune) of classic directness...
...SERVICEMAN'S NAME WITHHELD...