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pulsory military training” which does not have the same overs tones of coercion and force. Let's
is, shall we?
” » » UNFORTUNATELY, I suppose I'm not the best person to speak in opposition to conscription, My great-grandfather took his five sons and two daughters out of Germany in 1840 and brought them to the United States because he would not allow them to be conscripted into the German army; and, #herefore, I have what you might call a traditional conditioning against all manifestations of militarism, In this, however, I am hardly unique, for great large sections . of the American Midwest were settled by people fleeing from the same German compulsions,
» ” ” I CAN'T help feeling that it | would be a tremendous irony if we were to adopt barely one hun dred years later the very thing
guaranteed
of liberty, I don't think you understand very well, Mr, Lucas, why many ministers, parents and educators are opposed to conscription. You
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| | by Ley In examinations preparatory to the mass trial. »
It was revealed that Ley left a
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lated and authorities sald thelr contents would be published if of public interest. If the material proves purely personal or relating to his family, how ever, it will be withheld. New precautions were ordered fo make certain that none of the 20 other top Nazis held in the jall could similarly cheat allied justice. A separate guard henceforth will pe assigned to each individual prisoner instead of one guard *o every four prisoners. The guards will remain on duty outside and keep constant watch on the prisoners through a 10-inch aperture in the doors. Other precautions also will be taken, authorities said. They sald the suicide would not delay or otherwise affect the mass war guilt tri
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strength with the operation of whose policies many of these veterans would conceivably have much to do is a risk for America of such magnitude that one shudders before it." " n . EDUCATORS, Mr. Lucas, are likely to prefer to place their trust in a world federation based on a world constitution and an exact universal law as the only arrangement for world peace adequate to the implications of the | Atomic Age. Before the groundwork for such a world federation can be laid, there must exist a real willingness on our part to trust other nations, Our erection of a huge military potential is not likely to convince other nations that such trust exists. Those of you who favor conscription never tell us whom we are arming against. So, may I ask you now in all fairness—whom? | » » yo DO YOU mean the Soviet Union, Mr. Lucas? And, if so, do you know that many groups who favor conscription in America do so in their hopes for certain con-
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the Nuernberg courthouse on or about Now. 20. : . Prison officers said Ley had given no particilar previous intimation that he was contemplating suicide. However, he has been suffering from mental depressioii and psychologists had classified him as a type of magn liable tp take his own
life. He was particularly gloomy when the war erimes indictment was gerved on him in the same cell a week ago today. He Had declined to receive visits from either a Catholic or a Protestant chaplain—visits that were awaited eagerly by such other prisoners as Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, former Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop and others. Ley was suffering from acute bronchitis, complicated by laryngitis, medical officers sald. The suicide «was not discovered until 8:10 p. m. yesterday, prchably a half hour or more after Ley knotted the towel around his neck, A guard had passed the cell and peered inside five times every two minutes during that time. Glimpsing Ley's feet hanging from the toilet seat, the guard did not think The rest
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of the body was concealed by the cell door. i : Only when he thought” Ley had remained on the toilet too 18ng did the guard become suspicious and summon the corporal of the guard. When the soldiers: entered the cell, they found Ley's body was suspended from the flushing lever overhead. b A German physician, Dr. Ludwig Pflucker, was rushed to the cell. He injected one cubic centimeter of cardiazol and one cubic centimeter of globulin, then applied artificial respiration, but was unable to revive Ley. The suicide thwarted the most elaborate security regulations ever taken to insure safe delivery of a criminal to a court of justice. - Possessions Checked Prisoners were permitted no possession which the army felt could be used for suicide. Penknives, keys, coins, spectacles — everything that might produce a cutting edge--was taken from them. Even light bulbs were removed from the cells and cellophane was substituted for glass in windows. A barber shaved the prisoners with a safety razor, and he returned the blades to a prison officer after com~ pleting his rounds, ' The precautions were instituted
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kept us informed of the armament situation in other countries? The “little people” have no opportunity to learn about these warring ‘factors except through their representatives, from the ambassadors’ reports.
® » = WE, THE ‘little people,” will
Prank, former gauleiter of Poland, slashed his wrist in a suicide attempt. Speedy medical attention thwarted the death attempt, and Frank now is one of the most docile and cheerful of the prisoners. The 55-year-old Ley was captured May 5 by the 101st air-borne division at a mountain hideaway 45 miles south of Berchtesgaden on a tip from the German underground. He had a four-day growth of beard and was in his pajamas when the Americans walked in. on him. Ley attempted to swallow a vial of poison at that time, but was not quick enough, At Nuernberg Ley had been among the mest sullen of the accused war
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— ; cp never oppose a strong military force, we only oppose the method
they employ to build the strength,
and we vehemently oppose compulsory military training for our 18-year old youths under the present standards. 0 In the next place, what prevents - this, . the most powerful ‘Country on earth, from building an army from men who appreciate military life? Why not give these men a professional status as civil service employees and pay them in sc~ cordance and notice what a fine type of citizenry we will have in our regular army? Why not provide what little effort will be required to keep up the ranks to full strength, manned with men with intelligence enough to understand their country’s difficulties and not a bunch of kids, that all they have is a daring complex and an impressionable mind to absorb all the evils for the destruction of character which they may never be able to rebuild? & #8 : NO, Mr. Lucas, it would seem that the Hitler youth would be enough example to make us realize what compulsory youth training would mearr in a few years. And is there anyone naive enough to believe that all youths
Indeed they would not; private schools would be set up all over
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quirements probably, but with exclusiveness for the privileged. » td » : PLEASE consider, Mr. Lucas, that the morale of a country might be as necessary as mili tary protection. Didn't the Roman Empire have compulsory training also?
With all due respect to your fine record of soldiering, I cane not agree with you that the “lite tle people” are to blame for wars, Four of my children were in the service and our youngest will not return, so you can under stand why I so bitterly oppose our country’s taking its protec tion from its expendable youth, A MOTHER.
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CRAWFORDSVILLE, Oct. 26 (U. P.).—Abandonment of the Wabash college navy V-12 unit was ane nounced today. Lt. L. D. Gilroy, commanding officer, said that 11% trainees had been assigned to other stations. He added that 630 men took training in the unit after it was established July 1, 1943,
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