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About Roseburg news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1920-1948 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1947)
y RO$Uft.IEWS:REyiEW.,ROSEPU,Rrifl'll TUESDAY, JULY -1, 1947 ; Military Training Plan Finds Little Favor in Congress By PETER EDSON KEA Washington Corrrspondont WASHINGTON, D. C The re port of the President's Advisory Commission, which recommends adoption of a Universal Military Training program for the United States, will bu received critcally by Congress, if the disposition shown to ?date means anything. The 95-put!i! report is a large capsule of. concentrated gloom. It spells out all the horrors of war the next one in a manner fit to scare anyone Tt) death. Long range aircraft dropping ato mic bombs and germs in sneak attacks on defenseless cities pre viously rendered helpless by fifth column activities and therefore unable to organize for counter attack. The report says the UAited States can be involved in another war in four different ways. By direct attack. By becoming in volved in foreign wars like the last two. By trying to stop some aggressor from gainnig a foot hold against the U. S. in Latin America. Or by trying to police up some United Nations scrap. Then the Commission says: "Experience thus far gives very little evidence about the ability of the United States to deliver atomic bombs in decisive num bers against targets in enemy territory at great distance." Congress will ask if the United States can't launch such an at tack, how is anybody else going to do it? Also who's going to do it? Soviet Russia isn't mentioned by name in the report proper, but you can read it between any pair of lines, any place you open the book. The report says three-fourths of the world still lives In poverty and in the shadows. That would leave no one eligible for the job of aggressor, the present Con gress will argue. Universal military trainnig is recommended as the sixth line of national defense. In the five lines ahead of it are put: A strong healthy, educated popula tion. A co-ordinated Intelligence Service. Scientific Reasearch and iJevelopment. Industrial mobiliz r.tion and stockpiling. Regular Army, Navy and Air Force oper ating under unified command. Bpeed Is Imperative The President's Commission iays: "If the ftitroduction of uni versal military service should have such an indirect effect of weakening rather than strength ening the other elements of our national security, then the Com mission is of the firm opinion that the adoption of universal military training would be a mis take and would diminish rather than Increase our national secur ity." Taken together, this phase of the Commission's report and the proposal of the Republican sena tors mav kill off any action on universal military training for this session of Congress. Yet the need for speed, says t h e President's Commission, conies from the fact that it will lake five years to get this univer sal military training plan in op eration. It will take a year from the time legislation is passed to train the instructors and get ready for the first class. Then four years more before there will be enough graduates to fill out the reserve. In this Interval the country has its reserve of yearly ten million veterans of the last war. PiUt five years from now most of them will be too old for active service. The report is frank to say that there are some dangers to uni versal military training and some objections in- addition to the cost, which is put at $1,750,000. If this expenditure would mean cutting down on any of the other five lines of national defense, the Commission recommends forego ing it. The idea that universal mili tary, training could be accepted solely for its contribution to the health and education of the na tion was rejected by the Commis sion. There were said to be bet ter ways to improve physical and educational standards for less money. 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