Word: stimson
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After studying Secretary Stimson's ERC statement and conferring with Army representatives, the American Council on Education has drawn the following conclusions which it issues as a guide to college students...
...Secretary Stimson announced that in the nine months since Pearl Harbor more than 6,500,000 soldiers have been moved by rail in the U.S.-compared with 1,916,417 in the first nine months of U.S. participation in World War I. In June a million moved by rail. The Army is going somewhere...
Secretary Stimson's press conference statement last Thursday settled one thing in the minds of students. He made it clear that the ultimate destination of every man is the armed forces and ended the ambiguity presented when the demand for a 10,000,000 man army was stacked up against the policy of deferring undergraduates because they were undergraduates. He ended all thoughts of a diploma before an induction notice except for those whose graduation is imminent. But the fog has not lifted--it has only diminished. The path and the destination are clear, the relative worth to the nation...
Will the Navy and the Air Corps follow the lead of the Army and abandon their deferment programs? Men in the Marines have already received their six-months notice. What is to be the fate of the ROTC? In many quarters, sections of the Stimson dictum were taken to mean that the college units will be given up. When the lowered draft age becomes a reality, will the age limits of the ERC, and any other such groups operating under similar regulations, drop to meet it? And if they do should the colleges go into the English system...
...belief that the student body should roll up its sleeves but keep its shirt on was the reaction of University officials to Secretary of War Stimson's statement concerning the Enlisted Reserve Corps...