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A United Press story revealed yesterday that Johnson recently told President Truman a three-year addition to the draft is "essential" to national security. Vinson, in a telegram received earlier this month, expressed confidence that Congress would not extend the law.
"In view of the insistence of the Administration upon the steady decline in the strength of the Armed Forces despite Congressional authorization and appropriations," the Democratic Representative said, "and in the absence of any serious international crisis comparable to that existing in March 1948, I have concluded that I cannot...
The present law, passed in 1948, expires on June 24. Johnson wants it extended to June 30, 1953 and says that Secretary of State Dean Acheson, the National Security Resources Board, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the three branches of the armed forces all favor such an extension.
The request comes as no surprise. Officials in Washington last summer revealed to the CRIMSON that "the military will certainly ask for an extension . . . despite the facts that the Navy has not used the draft for three years, that the Air Force and the Marine Corps both have long waiting...
The military forces want a standing Selective Service system even though the draft itself may be dead, so that they will be able to draft people quickly should a new crisis arise. Johnson said that "if the draft machinery is allowed to stop it would take four months to reactivate...