Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Army men. They knew furthermore that, if the President had elected to put an officer in charge, he would have had to make the difficult choice between Lieut. Colonel Hershey and Judge Advocate General Allen W. Gullion, who topped Lewis Hershey in rank if not in knowledge of the draft. Military men also understood that a civilian director was in keeping with U. S. tradition and with a basic conscription principle: to keep the Army as far as possible from civilian draftees until they are actually inducted into service...
...question this week was how much actual drafting Clarence Dykstra would have to direct in 1940. The conscription act forbids the Army to enroll draftees until adequate housing is ready for them. Housing was still a problem last week: so was equipment. The Army talked of taking in only 100,000 draftees and volunteer registrants this year, of putting off the rest of the 400,000 in the first draft until early 1941. As the Army had expected, the rate of volunteering has increased since the conscription act was passed. Registered men can volunteer for one year's service...
...Twenty students at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City announced that they would refuse to register (the law requires theological students to register, exempts them from service). Tough, testy Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, the local draft director, promptly threatened to jail...
...peace, the U. S. got ready last week to draft a first batch of 400,000 men for twelve months' military training. At war, Canada last week called to the colors and put in training camps 30,000 men for 30 days...
...industrialists bombarded the Government with complaints that for even 30,000 young men to get even 30 days in training camps was taking so many skilled workers out of factories as to hamper the main Dominion war effort: industrial production. Originally Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, when the draft bill was being prepared, asked Canadian Army bigwigs what was the very shortest possible training period for draftees which would make any sense at all from a military point of view. He was answered: two months. The 30-day camping period, a political compromise, was an expression of the fact...