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Since World War I, the Negro's status as a U.S. fighting man has gone backward. Of the 1,078,331 Negroes registered for the draft in World War I, more than 34% were drafted (less than 27% of the white men registered were taken). Some 380,000 Negroes served as soldiers-10% of the whole Army. The 292,000 Negro troops the Army expects to have at the end of 1942 will come to 8% of the U.S. armed forces in World...
...unconvincing artificiality of mood to which it is subject may also be leveled at "Doncha Wanna Dig, Chillun" by Dartmouth's Edward Rasmussen. John Barnes' "But the Bullets Were Real" is a more original and evocative attempt. As a study of a sensitive young couple faced with the draft the tale deals with an important youth problem, while its experiment in form, though not always properly controlled, fits it for praise too often lavished on better balanced non-entities...
Pacifists Oppose Draft...
...recent draft will be met by statements of conscientious objection from the twelve members of the Harvard Pacifist Society, Linmey J. Burton '42, president of the society stated yesterday. The members oppose military service on religious, moral or political grounds, Burton said...
Reassuring several hundred Law School students, anxious over their chances in the draft, Warren A. Seavey, Bussey Professor of Law, reiterated last night that "there is no reason why law students should not become officers, if they have the physical qualifications...