CONSCRIPTION BILL
OPPOSITION IN U.S.
ARMY CHIEF'S SUPPORT
(Received July 31, 11.50 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, July 30.
The Army Chief-of-Staff, General George C. Marshall, told the Senate Military Committee that it would be absolutely impossible to build up the army to its essential strength without conscription. General Marshall appeared before the committee shortly after Republicans had sidetracked action on the Conscription Bill by demanding that President Roosevelt should ' declare himself for or against the measure. It was one of several manifestations of opposition to the Bill in its present form.
General Marshall said: "We are trying to do in. a time of peace what is always left until a time of war. I said a time of peace, but it is my belief that it is a time of peril. It would be a crime to send out our men unprepared."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 8
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140CONSCRIPTION BILL Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 27, 31 July 1940, Page 8
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