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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454718403321

Autore

Trytten Merriam Hartwick <b. 1894.>

Titolo

Student deferment in selective service, a vital factor in national security [[electronic resource] /] / by M.H. Trytten

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, [1952]

ISBN

0-8166-6472-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (149 p.)

Disciplina

355.223

355.2230973

Soggetti

Draft - United States

Students - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The policy of student deferment -- pt. 2. Supplementary information and discussion.

Sommario/riassunto

Student Deferment in Selective Service was first published in 1952. What dies ""student deferment"" mean? Is is an exemption or a postponement of military service? Why did our government adopt the policy? How dies it operate? How does it affect national security? Does it result in special privilege? Is deferment justified regardless of what curriculum a student chooses? These are some of the questions Dr. Trytten answers in this timely review of an important and controversial national program. As a shrinking manpower pool points up the need for new sources to meet draft quotas, the deferment p