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...Rep. Harold Velde (R.-Ill.), who will lead a possible investigation of the University, was attacked last night as "a man who is conscienceless enough to use a deliberate...
Currently the Senate Armed Services Committee is considering a UMT bill sponsored by Senator Leverett Saltonstall (Rep.-Mass.) requiring all eligible males 18 years of age to undergo a six months training period, and then serve as reservists for seven and a half years. During the 82nd Congress, a similar bill passed in the Senate, but was defeated in the House. This time, Saltonstall has altered his bill in several minor ways to pacify House members: the term of training has been increased from four to six months, and the UMT trainees will wear different uniforms and insignia to distinguish...
...bill's chances for success depend on two men. One, of course, is President Eisenhower; the other is the Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representative Dewey Short (Rep.-Mo). If Eisenhower endorses UMT as such (which is doubtful), Saltonstall expects little opposition in Congress to the bill. Short has consistently disapproved of many facets of UMT, and as House Armed Services Chairman could easily salt-tail the measure...
...Rep. E. C. Gathings (D. Ark.), chairman of the committee: Pocket-sized books have become "artful appeals to sensuality, immortality, filth, perversion, and degeneracy...
...subversives." Under his leadership, the Committee gained its reputation for legislative inquisitions and punishment by publicity. It became the archtype of later groups which trampled on civil liberties while looking for subversion. And what revitalizing influence Dies may lack will surely be provided by the Committee's new chairman, Rep. Harold H. Velde. It was Velde who wanted the Library of Congress to list all its "subversive" books, and plumped for a loyalty oath requirement for voting...