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...full week of arduous working days and brooding nights, even giving up a weekend in his beloved Hyde Park, to work on his draft-amendment message. Never before had he broadcast a message to Congress unless he delivered it in person, but this time he called the major broadcasting chains to the White House, had them record his speech for replaying as soon as his written message had gone to the Capitol...
Said the picket: "I have nine sons. Seven of them are eligible for the draft, and some of them have been taken. I will give every one of my sons gladly to defend this country but I will not give one of them to fight a war for another nation...
...personnel of the draft army is as split on this issue of intervention v. isolation as the general public is. But the doctrine of isolation . . . as I have observed it in the Army, is a poisonous thing. . . . Our own officers, to my mind, are not tough enough to drill into the men the idea that Hitler-alone-is our enemy and that Naziism must be destroyed before America is safe. Perhaps somebody ought to quit talking about defense and start talking about war. You'd be amazed at the number of men in the Army today who blindly seem...
General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, last week reduced the argument over draft extension to its simplest terms. Said he (to a Senate Committee): "Is there an emergency? I say there is, and the War Department says there is. You gentlemen will have to settle...
...Raymond Gram Swing, visiting lion of the hour. Cost: about $2,000. Among those present: 18 cabinet members. Rare gastronomical tributes: chicken, fresh asparagus, white wine, aged French brandy. ∙∙ Aluminum Multimillionaire Paul Mellon, 34, son of the late Andrew W. Mellon, volunteered for Army service to beat draft deferment because of his age, asked assignment to the cavalry. ∙∙ Ex-Ambassador Joe Kennedy's son, Joe Jr., 25, reported for Navy training as a flying cadet at Squantum, Mass, ∙∙ John T. Dorrance Jr., Campbell Soup heir, who has been getting...