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...late Dennis Cardinal Dougherty, Louis Bromfield, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr.), your editorial does not show us one positive contribution of UMS. As The Christian Century has pointed out, UMS would reduce both the size and the effectiveness of the army; thus even General MacArthur has advised against passing a UMT measure under the stress of the "emergency" situation today...
After the first year, UMT would become compulsory until 800,000 men a year were being inducted for the half year training. After their training the men would be put on the active reserve for seven and a half years. However, the first 60,000 men would serve 18 months active service immediately following their training period...
Wadsworth emphasized that the transition period to UMT would take only two or three years and that the government would save billions of dollars a year. The Commission said that a start should be made as soon as possible. Wadsworth added that the commission did not have enough information on world security to set a date...
Meanwhile, former M.I.T. president Dr. Karl T. Compton said that UMT could "become a great moral force in this nation." Compton asserted that communities near training camps would be encouraged to form citizens' committees "interested in the improvement" of trainees' welfare. Compton thought that this would make "a wholesome and healthful atmosphere for our young men in uniform...
...representatives from college and liberal arts departments of universities characterized UMT as "unnecessary and undesirable." "UMT as a permanent policy," the resolution stated "is likely to be fantastically expensive, educationally undesirable, morally hazardous, and politically dangerous...