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of the jobs that were to be done in terms of their production of war materielle and in terms of course of their production of eventually drafted soldiers.

He was dead against any volunteering of soldiers, of men for the armed services, because that left them free to choose to a certain extent which service they wanted to go into, and he was opposed to that because he thought they should be sent where at this moment they were needed, and where the tests that were to be applied showed that they would do best.

Well of course, General Hershey was adamanant against that, because he thought that the more of them that went along where they wanted to go, the better. “That work was all done for you,” I remember Hershey saying one day. “That job's all done for you, if you let 'em go where they want to go. Of course, if everybody wanted to go in the Navy, we'd have to do something to divert 'em, but that isn't true. They don't. You just have a kind of a reasonable division of human beings into the various services.”

Of course, he admitted that in the end, those who didn't have any choices were very likely to get put in the military infantry. It was where they ended up, if they didn't have any choices or offer any suggestions.

Smith had much this same idea about the assignment of





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