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With the average age of each of its members now at 47, Harvard's 25th reunion Class of 1919 has 92 of its 630 members serving in the Armed Forces. All of the 92 served in the first World War, except one, who was then physically unfit for service. Of the original 724 in the class, 87 are now dead and seven are unaccounted...
Poor leadership, which causes unnecessary casualties and "a weakness of the whole fabric of the fighting Army" will have to be eliminated, says Baldwin, before western Europe is invaded. According to Baldwin this major job must first be done: "the unfit, inept, 'stuffed-shirt' and inefficient leaders [must be replaced] with good leadership . . . to build up a pride of outfit in the country's many untested divisions, the divisions that on the war's greatest D-day will hold the future in their hands...
...Recently draft boards and induction centers have been forced to reject as unfit 46% of all men between 18 and 38. "An increase in these rejection rates can be expected as men in older age groups, men living with their families, are called...
...Among U.S. males of 18, who should be at the peak of good health, one out of four up for induction is unfit for combat...
...full-blooded Indians.) There are about a million people of Mexican extraction in Texas. In much of the State they are forced to ride in Jim Crow cars, use Jim Crow toilets, go to separate "Spik" schools and restaurants. Even Mexican consuls have been treated as if they were unfit to associate with any white Texan...