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...both UMT and the 1957 recommendations of the Cordiner committee on higher and more attractive salaries for trained, essential, skilled personnel are expensive items to present to a budget-minded President. UMT, if it were as universal as the British system, would require all fit American males to perform their military obligation for some period immediately after graduation from high school and would also rely on an active reserve establishment designed to guarantee rapid mobilization of trained troops. The Cordiner report, of which some provisions have been adopted, envisioned greater reliance than is presently possible on a stable body...
...UMT, even if it could survive a debate on the scale of that which accompanied the first such proposal in 1953 and 1954, would cost a chunk of cash. The Cordiner pay scale contemplated a first-year increase in expenditure of $650 million, though the committee thought that in four to six years the plan would decrease in expense and might even be cheaper than the present system in the long...
...recruiting program. But if legislators really want to enact provisions for only a small standing army, they must devise a system which is either less voluntary or more attractive for potential reservists. As matters stand now, the Reserve Forces Act is only a poor compromise between the draft and UMT...
...local pacifist group, which distributed leaflets at the University yesterday urging students to write their Congressman, is the Greater Boston Committee to Oppose UMT. Butcher is also a member of this group...
...main points against the plan are that it is UMT "in disguise"; that it "tells the world the United States is turning toward military solutions for international problems"; and "it violates our American right of the individual to make his own decisions in a democratic society...