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...cumbersome to be effective: its provisions for a special Training Corps, partly under civilian control, do not get men for the necessarily large standing army now needed. The President will probably kill this proposal, in favor of one of the other two possibilities, Universal Military Service or some sort of deferment plan...
President Conant, President Wriston of Brown, and others, however, have said they think that some sort of program would just have to be worked out to aid colleges under U.M.S. Wriston says that he considers U.M.S. as only in the theory stage--"the details will have to come later...
...Dean tends to favor some sort of deferment plan as a workable solution at this time, and feels that of the objections to the Trytten plan may disappear now that it has been amended. The new clauses that make men liable for college years, take away some of the advantages to the college student that may have existed before. Of course, a future Congress might change back a rule, and some men could avoid service. "I would not favor this plan at all," Bender said, "unless I thought all would serve at some time or other...
...November 7, the day of the election, your editorial castigated the Republicans for passing the Taft-Hartley bill and initiating the "hysterical" McCarran Act. What sort of people do you think rad your editorials, non-thinking robets? Anybody who has any guts today will admit that the Taft-Hartley Act is a just attempt at equalizing the balance of power in the American scene, and will praise its purpose and methods. Your condemning of it is not only indicative of your complete adherence to the party line, and of your lack of originality, but it is also an insult...
...assuredly not a Republican, but I do insist on a modicum of fairness. That modicum the CRIMSON may have possessed formerly, but certainly now, wallowing in misconstruction and bias, the CRIMSON has lost any claim to intelligent liberalism, and all claim to any sort of idealism. Charles MacVeagh...