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After a national plebiscite Canada's William Lyon Mackenzie King took the power, through an order-in-council, to send conscripts abroad-but has not used it. Last week Australia's dour, lank John Curtin sought the same power. Before Parliament was a draft-act amendment that, if it did not carry, might cause his Government to fall. To U.S. soldiers who had come 8,000 miles to help defend Australia, it seemed ludicrous that Australian troops, aside from volunteers, could not move freely throughout the South Pacific. But the Labor Party's no-conscript-overseas plank...
...along on outworn policies for 20 years, and has been, at best, a bumbling wartime parliamentary opposition, the Conservatives face a difficult task in regaining the Dominion's confidence. As Progressive-Conservatives under "Honest Jack" Bracken they have what may be their last opportunity. Party leaders expected to draft a platform that would: 1) attack the Liberal Party where it is most vulnerable (pussyfooting on basic war problems); 2) woo enough diverse support to capitalize on the expected post-war reaction to the present Liberal regime, As a starter, the party approved a four-point creed...
What the engineers wanted was much more than advice and suggestions to the local draft boards. They wanted a rational national program for the best use of the limited supply of new engineers. The Institute of Chemical Engineers had already reported that the engineering colleges could enroll a total of only 40,000 entering students per year, about 3.7% of the annual crop of 18-year-olds. Of these only 18,000 would graduate, half fit for commissioning, half for industry. Thus the loss to the armed forces would be less than...
...thousand men between the ages of 17 and 35, who customarily greet each other as "Slacker," "Draft dodger" and "Profiteer," stood for one and a half hours in the icy offshore wind at the United States Maritime Training Station at Sheepshead Bay, N.Y. last week and heard themselves lauded by President Roosevelt (by letter) and a No. 2 company of lauders as potentially gallant merchant seamen. To the undisguised relief of the station's 1,800 instructors, they uttered no boo, no Bronx cheer, and only a few rude mutterings...
Exempted by draft boards when they enroll in the Merchant Marine Naval Reserve "for inactive duty," they spend five weeks in preliminary training. Then they are given eight weeks' specialized training as seamen, firemen, water tenders, oilers, messmen, cooks, bakers, clerks and pharmacist's mates. Trainees are taught to handle themselves in a lifeboat, spend a total of 90 hours on lifeboat drill alone...