TRAINING AND SERVICE

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEVENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS

THIRD SESSION

ON

H. R. 10132

A BILL TO PROTECT THE INTEGRITY AND INSTITUTIONS
OF THE UNITED STATES THROUGH A SYSTEM OF
SELECTIVE COMPULSORY MILITARY
TRAINING AND SERVICE

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JULY 10, 11, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31
AUGUST 2, 12, 13, AND 14, 1940

Printed for the use of the Committee on Military Affairs

CONTENTS

Statement of—

Hon. James W. Wadsworth, Representative in Congress from the State

of New York..

Grenville E. Clark, New York City-

Judge William Clark, judge of the United States Circuit Court of

Appeals for the Third Circuit_ __

Page.

5

8

19

Col. William J. Donovan, formerly of the Sixty-ninth New York

Regiment...

21

Further statement of Hon. James W. Wadsworth_

Brig. Gen. John McCauley Palmer, retired..

43

44

Brig. Gen. William E. Shedd, Assistant Chief of Staff, War Depart-

ment__

Lt. Col. H. L. Twaddle, General Staff, War Department-

Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff, War Department-

Maj. Louis B. Hershey, General Staff, War Department..

Benjamin C. Marsh, representing the People's Lobby--

Maj. Gen. G. L. Eberle, General Staff, War Department-

Benjamin C. Marsh, executive secretary of the People's Lobby-

C. Š. Longacre, general secretary, Religious Liberty Association of

America

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92, 111

100

112

127

130

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150

Further statement of Benjamin C. Marsh, representing the People's

Lobby-

158

Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, adjutant general of Maryland.

Howard K. Beale, representing the American Civil Liberties Union..

Amos S. Horst, Akron, Pa---

Emily L. Eaton, representing the New York State branch of the

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom___

Hon. Fiorella H. LaGuardia, mayor of the city of New York..

Norman Thomas, New York City..

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239

Owen D. Young, Chairman, American Youth Commission...

Norman Thomas, resumed..

Robert Handschin, representing the National Junior Council of the

Farmers Union Juniors, the North Dakota Farmers Union, the

South Dakota Farmers Union, the Colorado Farmers Union, the

Educational Conference of the Wisconsin, Montana, North Da-
kota, Kansas, and Ohio Farmers Unions___

251

266

278

Fred Linton, public affairs secretary of the United States Junior

Chamber of Commerce__

296

The Right Reverend Msgr. Michael J. Ready, general secretary of the

National Catholic Welfare Conference__

299

Rev. Eugene M. Austin, minister, Tioga Baptist Church, Philadel-

phia, Pa...

Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, D. D., Riverside Church, NewYork

City

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344

Msgr. Barry O'Toole, Catholic University.

Bishop W. Appleton Lawrence, Protestant Episcopal Church, West-

ern, Mass.

353

355

Roswell P. Barnes, assistant secretary Federal Council of the Churches

of Christ in America_-

357

Arthur J. Edwards, representing Council for Social Action of Congre-

gational and Christian Churches___

361, 366

Dr. Paul H. Bowen, representing the Church of the Brethern

369