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...exhaustive treatment of the military draft and UMT proposals in your columns, only one thing has never been held disputable, and this is the advisability from a national policy point of view of having a standing conscripted army at all. It is difficult for a student of draft-able age to speak about this matter without being misunderstood to be defending his immediate and obvious self interest...
...only one of these that is under consideration by Congress now is the UMT bill now in the Senate Armed Services Committee. A member of that committee, Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14, told the CRIMSON last night it is very likely that a Universal Military Service proposal will be brought up during discussions of the UMT bill--"I certainly feel that it should," he said...
Price echoed the views of Representatives Carl Vinson (D-Ga.), chairman of the committee, and Paul J. Kilday (D-Tex), another key member. He explained that the major opposition to the draft came from Congressmen who were afraid of a peacetime UMT...
However many Senators appear to favor UMT. In addition the bill has strong backing from such groups as the American Legion and from Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, who sees UMT as an answer to the nation's long-range military manpower problem...
Fate of the UMT bill may depend in part on the findings of a special 12-man committee appointed yesterday to study the adequacy of the National Guard and Organized Reserve Corps...