General Lewis B. Hershey and Conscientious Objection during World War II
In so far as anybody remembers General Lewis Blaine Hershey today, it is probably in connection with the draft and the Vietnam War. As director of the Selective Service System for thirty years, his name became synonymous with the drafting of unwilling young men for an unpopular Vietnam War. His repu...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2013, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 364-366 |
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| Summary: | In so far as anybody remembers General Lewis Blaine Hershey today, it is probably in connection with the draft and the Vietnam War. As director of the Selective Service System for thirty years, his name became synonymous with the drafting of unwilling young men for an unpopular Vietnam War. His reputation in antiwar circles is not generally very high., In General Lewis B. Hershey and Conscientious Objection during World War II, author Nicholas A. Krehbiel endeavors, with some success, to rehabilitate Hershey's name, showing him to be sympathetic to conscientious objection during the Second World War and adept at managing the political difficulties of war-time America to ensure that conscientious objectors did not suffer in the manner which they had in 1917 and 1918. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst010 |