Word: conscripts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liability. In Nazi ideology economics is an instrument of war. Against barter, against cheap and conscript labor from the conquered countries, against German economic sleight-of-hand, high-wage U. S. business is unarmed. With the Germans masters of Europe, U. S. European trade ($1,893,000,000 in 1938) will almost certainly dwindle or it will have to be conducted on Germany's disadvantageous barter terms. And if Britain loses, Germany will have 60% of the world's merchant fleet. She will control the docks of the world either directly, or by economic pressure. A shipment...
Chairman Clark pointed out that the bill was a strictly military measure which contemplated no labor battalions or forced work in industry. Harvard's President James Bryant Conant approved, provided the bill deferred training and service for medical and scientific students and other technicians more useful outside a conscript camp. Wartime Generalissimo John J. Pershing testified by letter that such a bill would have saved the U. S. men and mon ey in World War I, reserved approval of the eight-month period (Army men would like at least a year) and the home defense provisions...
While Colonel Adler was on the stand, one of the many hard issues conscription would raise suddenly popped out from California's Townsendite Democrat Sheridan Downey. How about $5 a month, asked Sheridan Downey, when the Army could not get the kind of men it wanted for $21? "We are going to face tremendous difficulties with fifth columnists," boomed Senator Downey, "and I know no better way than to conscript mechanics and pay no wages to service airplanes...
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...materials through stock piling-- preparing to defend this country and this hemisphere if at any future time that becomes necessary; we can arm in this way, confident that defensive arming involves no such militarization of our civil life as is entailed in preparing for offense, with its huge conscript army and conscript economic life; and we can cultivate and improve our relations with Latin America, making trade and friendship the watchwords, continuing to replace north American imperialism with Pan American cooperation. This is the peace-side of the balance...