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...UMT Before Professional Training...
According to an Associated Press dispatch, a UMT program starting off on a limited scale would involve training about 60,000 men annually. In full operation the system would mean that approximately 800,000 youths would get six months of training, then for the next seven and a half years be in a reserve component...
...overwhelming 75-to-5 vote,* the Senate not only passed a draft act; it passed a universal military training measure along with it. Recommended in the beginning by George Washington, bitterly opposed by religious leaders, many educators, beaten by every congressional body which had ever considered it, UMT at last had the endorsement of at least one congressional wing...
Measure for the Future. It was not the Senate's idea that UMT would begin to operate immediately. But the Senate, following the recommendations of the Pentagon, would fit UMT into long-term military planning, once the present crisis passed. Then, the measure would require every 18-year-old to take six months' training, sign up thereafter for a choice of standby military duties. On most of the draft bill's other measures, the Senate was also willing to accept the word of the Pentagon. The bill would...
...opposition could hardly attack a law so obviously necessary as the Selective Service Act. So the Republicans have concentrated on the UMT provisions of the two Houses' bills. Their argument has been that there is no need to legalize Universal Training, that extension of the draft for a few years is enough. Some, like Senator Taft particularly, have argued that Congress should not delegate so much power to the president by letting him set up the program and run it as he pleases. This is also, they point out, a long-range delegation of authority, since the UMT provisions will...