HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

U.S. Congress. House.

SELECT COMMITTEE ON POSTWAR
MILITARY POLICY

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEVENTY-NINTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

PURSUANT TO

H. Res. 465

A RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH A SELECT COMMITTEE
ON POSTWAR MILITARY POLICY

PART 1

JUNE 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, AND 19, 1945

Printed for the use of the Select Committee on
Postwar Military Policy

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UNITED STATES
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1945

CONTENTS

Hon. Joseph C. Grew, Acting Secretary of State..

Mrs. Ernesta Barlow, vice president, the Citizens Committee for Mili-
tary Training for Young Men, Inc..

Statement of:

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Col. Jay Cooke, president of the Citizens Committee for Military

Training for Young Men, Inc.

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Statements by Kathleen Norris and Margaret Culkin Banning

were filed for the record by Mrs. Barlow..

Mrs. Barbara Skau, domestic nurse, Jackson Heights, Queens, N. Y

Mr. Philip A. Carroll, director, the Citizens Committee for Military

Training for Young Men, Inc.

Dr. Franklin Clarke Frye, president, United Lutheran Church of

America___

Captain Paul Hammond, director, Citizens Committee for Military

Training for Young Men, Inc.

Mrs. John Weinstein, president, New York City Federation of

Women's Clubs..

Letter from Sgt. John D. Scarlett, Liege, Belgium, was read into the record

by Chairman Woodrum at this point_

Statement of:

Mr. Charles G. Bolte, chairman, American Veterans' Committee_.

Maj. George Fielding Eliot, commentator, Columbia Broadcasting

System.

Col. John Thomas Taylor, director, national legislative committee, the

American Legion. -

Mrs. Lorena Hahn, former national president of American Legion
Auxiliary and present chairman of the Legion's postwar committee__

Maj. Gen. Ellard Walsh, president, National Guard Association of the

United States.

Hon. Edward Martin, Governor, State of Pennsylvania_

Omar B. Ketchum, national legislative representative, Veterans of

Foreign Wars of the United States__

Col. William B. Tuttle, legislative chairman, board of trustees, Reserve

Officers' Association of the United States

Mr. William B. Mathews, editor, Arizona Daily Star, Tucson, Airz

Mrs. Willard Steele, chaplain general, Daughters of the American

Revolution__

Vernon A. Eagle, honorably discharged commando

Dr. Harrop A. Freeman, professor of law, College of William and Mary,

Williamsburg, Va., as read by Dr. Theodore A. Paullin, assistant

professor of history, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa

Archibald G. Thacher, Attorney, New York City..

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Dr. A. J. Brumbaugh, vice president, American Council on Education

Dr. William J. Miller, president, University of Detroit, representing

Michigan Council to Oppose Peacetime Conscription_..

Judge William Hastie, National Association for Advancement of

Colored People---

Dr. Gould Wickey, executive secretary, national commission on

Christian higher education, Association of American Colleges..

Dr. John L. Davis, executive secretary, board of higher education,

Disciples of Christ.

Mr. Benjamin C. Marsh, executive secretary, People's Lobby, Inc. -

Dr. James Mendenhall, chairman, legislative committee, department

of supervision and curriculum development of National Education

Association....

Dr. William Heard Kilpatrick, Liberal Party of New York State...

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