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...fathers, who are about to be drafted (TIME, May 17) are needed to fight, then it all makes sense. If, however, we are being called as replacements on the home front to do the work that might well be done by the unmarried, unfit (by present standards) or the WAACs and the WAVES who have gladly volunteered for such service, then it will not make sense...
Russian newspapers last week reported the capture of a German Ph.D. who had become an infantry man. He and his men had taken over a Russian village, where they seized cattle and grain, hanged six old men & women who were unfit for German work camps. Said the Herr Doktor to a Russian questioner: "We have no heroes. The German Army is an army of businessmen. We are simply thorough and conscientious employes of a great enterprise called The Eastern Campaign...
Periodic tests will winnow the unfit, return them to the ranks. The colleges, not the armed forces, will prepare most of the courses and set examinations according to their individual standards. Terms of study for apprentice seamen will range between eight months (aviators) and four years (chaplains, doctors, dentists). Both Army and Navy programs include some liberal arts subjects...
...called high standards of living for the past generation - and one-third of our youth are unfit for military service. And many that pass our none-too-high physical standards for entrance into the Army require much time and patience to harden physically-even more time and patience to toughen morally...
Coincident with the entrance of the British into Gabes, last night came word from the Cambridge Board of Health that the triangular-shaped edifice at the juncture of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets, so long disguised as a traffic accident, had been condemned as "unfit for human habitation...