The report of the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Training (TIME, June 9) seemed to have popular approval. Editorial writers largely cheered it, and the latest Gallup poll showed 74% of U.S. citizens in favor of enforced military training for U.S. youths. Bernard Baruch put U.M.T. high on his 16-point preparedness program. Last week, speaking as chairman of the newly formed, 120-member Citizens Emergency Committee for Universal Military Training,* Owen J. Roberts, former Supreme Court justice, added his voice. World affairs are approaching a crisis, he told the House Armed Services...
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