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Andrew May went even further. He declared that there is no need to draft 18-to-20-year-olds, or to take married men. An Army of five million is big enough to win. Said he, "The enemy soon will be so busy abroad coping with the men we now have there, and will have there shortly, that he will be unable to give us any invasion worry...
...months after Pearl Harbor, the Government moved in on the German-American Bund, which had "dissolved" upon American entry into the war, had gone underground in literary, singing and sports societies. In New York, 29 Bundsters and associates were indicted on charges of assisting German-Americans to evade the draft. The time for laughing at the Bundsters' funny accents and cheap uniforms was at last officially over...
...ebullient editor was marked "IA" by his draft board, and overnight the U.S. had its screwiest Selective Service case of World War II. The editor was voluble Ralph McAllister Ingersoll of crusading, neurojournalistic PM. And the rumpus he kicked up could have happened only in Manhattan...
...patriotic publicity, is a sizable step toward mobilizing education. Actually it adds little to the programs already in effect at Yale, Harvard, and elsewhere. Although students not preparing themselves for some definite form of war service "have no place at Yale," those who register as "waiting for the draft" may continue their normal academic schedules. Anyone wishing to delay a decision may do so, for there is no compulsion at any point. Most men, of course, will enter one of the reserves as soon as possible, or plunge into Japanese or Russian. Courses of special use in the war will...
Wendell Willkie himself snuffed out the smoldering effort to draft him as a candidate against Tom Dewey for the Republican nomination for New York's governorship. Said he: "I realize that [the draft leaders'] urgent demands that I become a candidate are manifestations of protest against a political situation in which they find their viewpoints completely unrepresented. ... I long ago declared that I did not intend to be a candidate and I have no intention of becoming one." Thus Willkie bowed out, yielded the nomination to Dewey...