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Ever So Humble. In Philadelphia, Joseph Coia, a deserter from a Navy ship stationed in Brooklyn, was undone when he gave his draft board a home address smack in the middle of the U.S. Mint...
Ever since last June, when the war headlines began getting more & more heartening, more & more balding heads have popped up before New York City draft boards, volunteering for military service...
...Began to draft a Polish army of from 200,000 to 500,000 men, banned all other Polish military organizations. Presumably this ban would include the London Government's strong Partisan groups, among which are the forces of General Bor, who was still holding out against the Germans in Warsaw. (Last week, for the first time, Red Army planes dropped supplies to the embattled Partisans in the city...
Last week there were unmistakable signs that not all Poles recognized the right of the Lublin government to govern them. Polpress, the Lublin government's new semiofficial press agency, reported violent resistance to Lublin's efforts to draft its new army, assassination of officials who tried to enforce the decree. Lublin blamed "internal delegates" of the Polish Government in Exile for these "gangster attacks," threatened them with "the full rigor of the law." "All good Poles," said Polpress, greeted the draft with enthusiasm...
...They diagnose as psychoneurotic many men who are "sissies, poor sports, hypochondriacs and malingerers." This applies to many of the 802,000 men turned down in the draft for neuropsychiatric difficulties, and to hundreds of thousands dismissed from service...