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Professor Sorokin states that the effect of the father draft will depend mainly upon the training which the drafted father had given his family. Showing that the loss of the head of the family will result "in weak families" in "demoralization, irreligiosity, even criminality," Professor Sorokin also says that "for good families . . . the draft will intensify and deepen moral stamina, religiosity, sense of duty and devotion...
...very real to the "little man" in Australia. Australian casualties the world over have been heavy. The draft and voluntary enlistment have drained the land of its young men. On a population basis, Australia has put into uniform an army equivalent to a U.S. army of 15,500,000 men. The little man wants the fight to end, abundant peace to come...
Politics. To critics of the draft law which prevents draftees from being sent to fight outside the Southwest Pacific area, Prime Minister Curtin replies with figures. When he came to power less than two years ago, there were 267,000 Australians who had volunteered to fight anywhere in the world. Today there are 530,000 volunteers for the United Nations' battlefronts-70% of Australia's total enlistment in all services...
...Valtin, 1941's best-selling tattletale (Out of the Night), German-born ex-agent for both the Ogpu and Gestapo, undesirable-alien parolee, passed his draft physical and was ordered to arms...
...Line. Before Pearl Harbor U.S. fascism was blatant and aggressive. Federal agents and public hostility have driven it to cover. So today's techniques are largely confined to whispering campaigns in industrial centers, promotion of racial violence, draft dodging, food hoarding, agitation for "democratic" opposition to the Administration. The objective, says Carlson, is to sabotage "with every means at their command, a quick Allied victory ... to ,prolong the conflict in order to intensify . . . work of dissension...