National Affairs: Conscription

Eire, Canada, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Cuba and the U. S. maintain the only armies in the world of 1940 whose ranks are filled by volunteers. But last week conscription loomed as an imminent reality for the U. S. Never yet has the U. S. had conscription in peacetime, only twice in time of war.* Yet, bulking big in the background for millions of John Does and Richard Roes, peacetime conscription last week cast its unfamiliar shadow over an active week on the U. S. defense front. It was the first big, tough, concrete reality to emerge...

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