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Eighty-three college presidents from all over the country struck out vigorously Monday night against the Selective Service and UMT proposals now before Congress.
Numbering among its forces Robert Hutchins, University of Chicago, Rufus Harris, Tulane, F. X. N. McGuire, Villanova, James A. Colston, Georgia State, and two presidents of small Massachusetts colleges, the anti-conscription group assailed the Congressional proposals as making "the threat of force the basis of our foreign policy."
In a statement distributed by the National Council Against Conscription, the college presidents jointly declared that the armed forces have not yet exhausted means of procuring men under the voluntary system.
They add that enlistment would speed up if the army revised its court-martial procedure and modified the officer-caste system.
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