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...questions considered first-graduate and occupational deferments-were from all indications decided substantially on the issues. The views of Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz prevailed on both. In testimoney before the Senate Subcommittee on Employment, Manpower, and Poverty last month. Wirtz said that solely on the considerations of civilian manpower supply, neither group of deferments was essential to the nation. Although not a member of the NSC, his views were transmitted to the Council in an official memorandum co-signed by the Secretaries of Commerce and Health, education, and Welfare...
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...report was forwarded to IAC chairman Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz, who was thought to have sent it immediately to the White House. But before Christmas, it was learned that the report was still sitting on Wirtz's desk, more than two weeks after completion...
Informed sources report that the recommendations are now finally being considered in the White House. The probable reason for Wirtz's delay of the report should cause the President to reject its recommendations: Wirtz doesn't think the country needs educational or occupational deferments. In testimony before a Senate sub-committee last March, he said that once the present system is changed, there will be no justification on the basis of civilian manpower needs for any educational or occupational deferments. The IAC had assumed the continued use of the oldest-first system in making its recommendations. At the very most...
...President must also decide about graduate school deferments. The Interagency Advisory Committee recommended to him a wide list of fields to be deferred. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz is against such deferments...