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Before a correspondent can even apply for a passport he must get permission from his local draft board to leave the country-and after the passport comes through the visa rush begins. Manthorp got one correspondent visas for thirteen countries in a single day, but some governments are not so easy. For example, no visa for India is granted without a cabled O.K. from New Delhi, and Portugal is even harder...
...belted N.M.U. harder or more consistently than Columnist Pegler. He has pictured N.M.U. as a Communist cell attempting to convert all of U.S. labor; has accused Joe Curran of draft dodging. (Curran, married but childless, was deferred as an essential worker, i.e., labor leader.) But what most infuriated N.M.U.ers-who boil over at the mere mention of Pegler's sleeping-car first name-was the columnist's revival of the old scuttlebutt, repeatedly and officially denied, that U.S. merchant sailors mutinied at Guadalcanal...
...points Professor Sorokin claims that the draft will have a vicious impact on the American family. Biologically, he claims, it will probably lower the birth-rate "if the men are away for a long time," and economically the draft will "lower the material standard of living" of the average family...
Burton Wheeler's psychological misery finds no sounding board in Professor Sorokin, who says that the psychoneuroses which will result from the draft will be balanced by "the grace of duty and sacrifice for the common good...
...Boston Traveler, which has been campaigning against the father draft, printed above the article the headline, "Harvard Expert Hits Father Draft." Professor Sorokin commented, "If they had read the article before writing the headline, perhaps they would have realized that I took no sides...