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...Toronto, National Selective Service Director Arthur MacNamara told Canadian manufacturers that the armed forces would need 98,000 men in the next eight months. War industries needed 134,117 more workers (as of June 2). To meet these conflicting needs, MacNamara forecast cancellation of many draft deferments, more compulsory job transfers from low-priority industries...
...Government had not yet done anything about the biggest reserve of trained manpower in Canada-some 70,000 "zombies," men who had been drafted for home defense but refused to serve overseas. Largely because of French Canadian opposition, Ottawa still declined to draft men for service abroad...
...Service registrants examined turned out to be 4-Fs; 2) Major General George Lull added that U.S. physical fitness has actually deteriorated since World War I, largely as a result of poor distribution of medical care; 3) Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire requested that the A.M.A. draft a "sound plan for medical care." To cope with this problem, a five-man committee (included: General Lull, Dr. Fishbein) was appointed...
...Plan. What, actually, did the President's plan propose? Neither the President nor Secretary Hull divulged anything more, but the news leaked. The Great Blueprint, it developed, had been started in February 1942, three months after Pearl Harbor. It had been finished, in its present working-draft form, in May 1943. The President had kept the plan secret until well after Teheran, until he judged the political weather was right...
That was that. U.S. voters could choose one of two pictures: that the President, a genuine "internationalist," was merely making a bid for some America First votes; or that he had all along been laughing up his sleeve at "internationalism." The Great Blueprint was just the working draft. There were almost certain to be more changes and shifts. In a crucial election year, Franklin Roosevelt was shrewdly working both sides of the street...