Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...radio speech urging 1) aid to Britain (with the Army and Navy to be the best judges of "how much and what sort of aid we can extend with safety"), 2) the election of Wendell Willkie. Because his 35th birthday comes next month he would register for the draft, as would Governor Stassen (33) and Lieutenant Governor C. Elmer Anderson (28), then leave for Washington to take the oath and begin work as the Senate's youngest Senator...
Last week a civilian was chosen to direct the U. S. draft: big (6 ft. 3 in., nearly 200 lb.), incisive Clarence Addison Dykstra, president of the University of Wisconsin. Denied top place in the new Selective Service Administration was the Army's able Lieut. Colonel Lewis Blaine Hershey, who prepared the draft machinery and stood by to teach Director Dykstra its ins & outs...
Yesterday youth, by no means unanimous in its support of compulsory military service, registered for the draft at Harvard and throughout the country. To many young men, as they signed their names, the same doubting attitude which had previously provoked adult criticism was present. Many had little sympathy with a measure which seemed imposed upon them from above. And to all those interested in the future of the youth movement, and of its promise as a means of achieving "a better world," arose a question. Would the Draft Act serve to strengthen and unite youth in a common consciousness...
...registrants will probably be mild at first. Those who forgot or for any other reason were unable to register will have to do so. Those refusing to register as conscientious objectors will be forced to in court and probably will lose any right to plead for deferment. Draft dodgers who attempt to conceal themselves will face the F.B.I. and be liable to a $10,000 fine or five years in prison...
...Dennett's letter adds that "The provision allowing conscientious objectors, certified as such by local draft boards, to 'be assigned to work of national importance under civilian direction' clearly makes the 1940 law more liberal than that of 1917; for legal recognition is now granted to the person whose objection is not merely to combatant service but service under military direction which in any way contributes to the conduct...