Word: draft
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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According to the terms of the draft bill, a person "who, by religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form" in defined as a conscientious objector and is set subject to "combatant training and service in the land and naval forces of the United States...
...Draft Boards Will Determine...
...will be up to the local draft boards to determine whether or not a man actually is a conscientious objector. There is, however a right of appeal to the Draft Appeal Board if the local board decides unfavorably...
These courses will give the student no particular advantages in the draft as no actual extension of the military program has as yet been announced from Washington. They will merely serve as unofficial training...
...corps, C division of the R. O. T. C. will be excused, Weden said; all others between 21 and 36 must report for interviews. However, deferments until next July 1 will be given, at their own request, to students claiming it on the questionnaires sent them by their local draft boards...