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Treatment of the Conscientious Objector Under the Selective Service Act of 1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

John W. Masland et al.
John W. Masland et al.
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Stanford University
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Among the many problems which the war has thrust upon the United States has been that of the proper treatment of the conscientious objector to compulsory military service. Our record in this regard during the first World War was not one of which a democratic nation could be proud. With the enactment of the Selective Service and Training Act of 1940, reconsideration of the issue was necessary. Now, after almost two years of experience with the administration of the Act, a systematized plan quite unlike that of the past has been formulated and placed in operation.

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American Government and Politics
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American Political Science Review , Volume 36 , Issue 4 , August 1942 , pp. 697 - 701
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1942

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References

1 The present note is based in large part upon the publications of the National Service Board for Religious Objectors (Washington), the National Council for Conscientious Objectors (New York), and the American Friends Service Committee (Philadelphia).

2 Committees on Military Affairs, House of Representatives and United States Senate, 76th Cong., 3rd Sess., Hearings on Compulsory Military Training and Service, July, Aug., 1940, passim.

3 U.S. Code, 1940, Title 50, §305.

4 Selective Service Revised Regulations, cited in National Council for Conscientious Objectors, Inform. Sheet No. 6.

5 Executive Order No. 8606.

6 New York Times, Dec. 22, 1940.

7 Executive Order No. 8675.

8 For descriptions of the work camps, see Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 214, No. 7, p. 26 (Aug. 16, 1941), and New York Times Magazine, May 10, 1942, p. 14.

9 Fellowship of Reconciliation press release, May 14, 1942.

10 Christian Century, Nov. 27, 1940, p. 1467.

11 Nation, Jan. 11, 1941, p. 55.

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