Word: conant
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...uneasy feeling that the Administration, and perhaps the U.S. itself, was not fully alert to the common danger showed also in the formation by a group of distinguished U.S. leaders of a Committee on the Present Danger. High in its ranks were Harvard's President James Bryant Conant and Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research & Development. Dr. Bush complained that while Russia strengthened its radar defenses the U.S. was busy completing television networks...
Last week's resolution of the Association of American Universities contains the details of the program which the Committee on the Present Danger is backing, Conant said. That program would draft all men at 18, without exception, to serve up to 27 months. During the first few years of the program there would be some deferments for students already in college on the basis worked out by General Hershey's Advisory Committees (announced Monday in Washington...
There is no question that discussion of the draft question--among educators and legislator--will continue to be quite vigorous, Conant said. If the Administration puts U.M.S. in its manpower bill, he continued, the Committee will certainly argue for it. And, Conant pointed out, there is the possibility that a bill which did not come up to expectations could be amended...
...answer to arguments President Charles C. Cole of Amherst stated against U.M.S. in a magazine article last week. Conant made two points: 3 first, that there need not be a full-scale hiatus for the nation's schools when Universal Service is first put into effect. "This can be adjusted," Conant said, pointing out the temporary deferments system that the A.A.U. program would install, and that the army would always be discharging a good number...
Secondly, answering Cole's argument that U.M.S. could not provide enough men, Conant stated that the nation would always have to rely to some degree on long-term enlistments to maintain a large standing army; this would hold true under continued Selective Service too, he said...