PROVISION FOR ALIENS
SERVICE IN AMERICAN ARMED FORCES SENATE AMENDS DRAFT BILL Rec. 9 p.m. WASHINGTON, June 8. The Senate to-day amended the Draft Bill to allow 25.000 aliens to serve in the American armed forces at home and abroad. The enlistees, after serving five years, would be eligible for American citizenship. Opponents of the amendment it would carry the implication that Americans were unwilling to defend their country. The Senate Draft Bill provided for American citizens between, the ages of 19 and 25 to serve in the armed services for two years. The Senate approved the limitation of conscription to two years instead of five. The proposal was made by Senator Wayne Morse, who argued that a peace-time draft for five years was “good cause for great alarm that we may be moving too far towards an over-militarised State.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26794, 10 June 1948, Page 5
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140PROVISION FOR ALIENS Otago Daily Times, Issue 26794, 10 June 1948, Page 5
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