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...through 25 must register; but only those 19 through 25 will be subject to induction. Up to 161,000 18-year-olds can escape a later draft call by volunteering for one year's active service in the U.S., six additional years in the reserves...
Target: A 2,000,000-man military establishment (up 600,000-by a draft and enlistments-from present strength...
...great setback to our bipartisan foreign policy." The reciprocal trade agreements? "I think the reciprocal trade act should be extended [for three years]. The draft? "I should have been much happier [with] universal military training . . . [But] if Congress believes that the time is here to have conscription . . . I'm for it and I'm willing that my boys should take their place...
Last week the Senate also: ¶ After three days of intermittent debate, passed a law which provided authority to draft 225,000 single nonveterans between 19 and 25 for two years, permit 161,000 18-year-olds to volunteer for one year's training...
...Passed the Fellows bill to admit 202,000 D.P.s over the next two years, a more generous formula than the Senate's discriminatory Wiley-Revercomb bill. ¶ Passed a farm-price support bill to continue present support policy until 1950. ¶ Received the Andrews draft bill from its Rules Committee, where it had been bottled up for five weeks...