In replying to the suggestion that. if we are to have a draft of men. we should have a draft of women. I did not then JULY" 25 use. nor have I ever at any time used. words which carried the suggestion "that womens chief interest in getting into some war activity was to catch a husband." Nor did I ever suggest that. if the women of America wanted a husband. "they can get displaced persons from Europe." Several times I have argued. as I now contend. that. if the draft is to take two or three million. young Americans and. In taking them. is to select those best physically and mentally qualified. that process deprives the young woman of America of the opportunity to get the kind of a man she might otherwise have. that. to a large extent. her choice would be limited to those who were disqualified for the draft. or to some displaced person or an immigrant. My thought was. and it is. that such a result was most unfair to the young women of America. The Detroit Free Press editorial further states: No woman of whom we know really wants to go to war.
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