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While not so forceful as General William Tecumseh Sherman's famed renunciation, this seemed equally binding. Two weeks before, General MacArthur had said only that "I have not sought the office nor do I seek it," which presumably still left him free to accept a Presidential draft. Perhaps after the unauthorized publication of the General's letters to Nebraska's New Deal-hating Congressman Arthur Lewis Miller (TIME, April 24), his Presidential boomlet had collapsed irreparably...
Millions of young Americans have been through it - months of distressing uncertainty, expecting a draft call, finding it was not imminent, hearing that it was, etc. - until they are finally put out of their misery by induction. But this is the first self-pitying novel about the experience...
Messrs. Stimson, Knox and Land again urged a national service act. But last week the House Military Affairs Committee flatly declined to report a bill which would force 4-Fs into war work or Army labor battalions, asserting that the Army already has all the authority it needs to draft 4-Fs for noncombat service...
...draft order threatened to call back from the fighting fronts technicians sent there by Dr. Bush's OSRD to watch the performance of new weapons under battle conditions...
Many a U.S. scientist last week grimly contrasted U.S. draft policy with those of Britain, Russia and Germany, which have taken care to keep their scientists where they can be most useful - in the laboratories. The heedless drafting of scientists, said they, would not only put a crimp in the U.S. war effort but place the nation at a serious disadvantage in postwar technology...