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...problem whether or not to plan in 1943 for the post-war world is now squarely before the new Congress. The Wadsworth bill providing for compulsory military service after the war, if passed, would be committing the United States in advance to a policy which it has never before followed. Shrewdly handled, it can become an important bulwark in preventing a too-rapid return to normalcy after the war, but it has the potential power of creating an armed camp which would not take the trouble to plan and cooperate in anything but the perpetuation of an armed peace...
...American manpower was fast approaching this week. On Washington's Capitol Hill two Republicans-Vermont's Senator Warren Austin, New York's Representative James Wadsworth -dropped identical bills into the legislative hoppers. The small black type of the preambles read quietly: ". . . to provide further for the comprehensive, orderly and effective mobilization of the man power and the woman power in support of the war effort...
Points of the Wadsworth-Austin bill...
...jobs ,000,000 with the armed services, 20,000,000 in war production, 12,000,000 on the farms, 22,000,000 for irreducible civilian work. The 4-way strains of these huge forces have been wrenching the U.S. economy apart. Clear purpose of the Wadsworth-Austin measure was to challenge an Administration which has been studying the problem, but shying away from a tangle with Congress...
...looked as if the Administration favored National Service, had a plan blueprinted, but was still fearful of Congress' reactions. If so, Republicans Austin & Wadsworth may have saved it the trouble. Said Senator Austin: "The new bill will establish equal treatment for all . . . government by consent of the governed...