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...this week, when a compromise version of the Burke-Wadsworth Bill emerged at last from the Senate Military Affairs Committee, Henry Stimson's fire and logic had yet to convert many a doubter. Biggest obstacle to conscription still was the Congressional state of mind typified by Iowa's grey GUY MARK GILLETTE. Like most of the other opposition Senators, Mr. Gillette has voted for billions in emergency Defense appropriations. Last week he announced that conscription should be delayed until there is an emergency. For good measure, Guy Gillette also devised a new definition of military training: "This idea...
...President and his Chief of Staff, General George Catlett Marshall, also asked Congress to provide the men to use the new Army's equipment. Only way to get enough men is conscription. Testifying for the pending Burke-Wadsworth Universal Training Bill (TIME, July 1), General Marshall and Lieut. Colonel Harry L. Twaddle drew up a conscription schedule: 300,000 to 400,000 draftees to be called Oct. 1, another 300,000 or 400,000 next April (or next January, if necessary). By October 1941, the rate can be stepped up to 600,000 at a time. The Army wanted...
Perennial problem of the Friends, who are militant pacifists, is War. Last week they reaffirmed their pacifism, told young Friends how they could avoid military drill at college,* sent Quaker Paul Comly French to Washington in vigorous protest against the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill now before Congress...
...enough. The Association's emergency committee chairman, Manhattan Corporation Lawyer Grenville Clark, and its vice chairman, the New York Times's Colonel Julius Ochs Adler, went to Washington for hearings before the Senate Military Affairs Committee on M. T. C. A.'s legislative baby, the Burke-Wadsworth Selective Training and Service Bill (TIME, June 17). Main features: listing of available men from 18 to 65; from this list, men between 21 and 31 (ultimately 21 to 45) will be liable for selection by lot for an eight-month training period (subject to emergency extension...
...present no sons will go to camp under the Burke-Wadsworth Bill. Hearings were postponed as Congress waited for word from Franklin Roosevelt, who approves the motives of M. T. C. A. but is pondering with Laborite Sidney Hillman an independent scheme for the voluntary training of 460,000 youths in technical defense jobs, and from the War Department, whose enthusiasm for compulsory enlistment is matched by a determination not to be swamped by calling up excessive numbers at the start...