National Affairs: The New Debate

Before a Congress which has shown every indication of shying away from universal military training, Harry Truman stood up this week and said flatly that universal military training was necessary to U.S. survival. Thus he backed up his Chief of Staff, General George C. Marshall, proved again that he was willing to give his top men the same loyalty he took as a matter of course.

The President proposed that every youth take one year's military training when he was graduated from high school or turned 18—whichever came later. During the year he would learn something about all phases of the armed...

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