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While everybody in Washington wanted to talk about MacArthur, Georgia's cagey and crusty Carl Vinson, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, set out to pilot the controversial draft bill through the House. As usual, his performance was a lesson in skilled parliamentary maneuver. He knew that he couldn't get everything he wanted (like Universal Military Training), but he was determined to get as much as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Draft Passed | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

Patient and aggressive by turns, Carl Vinson gave ground where it hurt the least, bulled through the vital points, knocked down a host of emasculating amendments. A Republican attempt to put a 4,000,000-man limit on the armed forces was rejected; so was a move to require specific congressional approval before dispatching drafted troops to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Draft Passed | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...stickiest issue of all was an amendment to give draftees the choice of service in a segregated unit. Here Southerner Vinson, an outspoken opponent of the proposal, got impassioned support from Chicago's Democratic William Dawson, one of the two Negroes in the House, whose face bears scars from combat in World War I. "How long, how long, my confreres and gentlemen from the South," Dawson cried, "will you divide us Americans on account of color . . . Deny to me, if you will, all that American citizenship stands for. I will still fight for you. Why will this body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Draft Passed | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...passed the Senate. Though U.M.T. is not directly involved in the new college deferment plan, it soon got caught up in the argument. The House, before it even got to a vote on U.M.T., made it illogically plain that it was inclined to drop the whole thing. Congressman Carl Vinson of Georgia, in charge of pushing U.M.T. through, hastily promised to support an amendment which would prohibit bright-boy deferments. But at week's end it seemed likely that his amendment had come too late to save U.M.T...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: Up In Arms | 4/16/1951 | See Source »

Debate on the floor opens again tomorrow when Carl Vinson (D.-Ga.) will take his re-written measure back to the House. In the meantime, Selective Service is going ahead with its plans for deferment tests, though the Kilday amendment may makes them unusable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Committee Votes To Amend U.M.S.T. Bill | 4/10/1951 | See Source »

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