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...policy was the result of a meeting of the entire 20-man draft committee on December 9 and 10. Committee members were at that time pledged not to release their plan until it had been announced by official sources...
...Dissent. Grimly and regretfully, the country shouldered the burden of a record peacetime rearmament. In little issues and big, the signs of the people's decision were clearly written. Congress authorized a peacetime draft and stamped its approval on a massive Air Force, Army and Navy-without a whisper of partisan dispute in an election year...
...committee was headed by New York Banker Ferdinand Eberstadt, who helped draft the unification plan, and included, among consultants, Admirals Nimitz and King and Generals Eisenhower and Spaatz...
Namesake. In El Dorado, Kans., August Herman Draft Jr. got notice of his induction from Draft Board Clerk Barbara Jane Board...
...only 2⅓ divisions in reserve in the U.S., was already curtailing its draft schedule. The problem was up to the JCS and the U.S. people. They now had Douglas MacArthur's word for it that, one way or another, the U.S. could not escape sharing the cost of Nationalist China's defeat...