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This did not cut down the letters, however; it only altered their source. Immediately after the vote, Representative Vinson and other UMT proponents began receiving a large number of letters urging them to "keep plugging," and the tide turned. Speaker Rayburn has just announced the possibility of a new vote...
Like the tides however, the Speaker is a little behind the moon. The proposal he refers to as UMT is not really a universal military training program at all, and even if Congress approves it, those who instructed Vinson to keep plugging will not get what they are supporting. Instead, they will get a program limited to five years, one that cannot be set in motion until the present military draft has been lifted, and one where the trainees cannot be inducted until yet another Congressional vote. In addition to these crippling amendments, they will get only a training program...
...this UMT bill actually passes Congress, the issue will be dead. Its inadequacy will make no difference, for the tide will have run out permanently. If Speaker Rayburn and Representative Vinson are really looking at the moon, and not some incandescent globe they have set up themselves, they will stop trying to appease hostile Representatives and present Congress with a full UMST program...
Ernest W. McFarland (D-Aris.) said that the final decision would rest with other ranking Democrats, and with Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Mr. Vinson has thus far said that he has no plans for reconsideration of UMT in his committee at this session...
Administration leaders had conceded in advance that recommital of the measure would probably mean no further action this year and perhaps for several years to come. But Representative Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, has already warned that the committee will report the bill out again...