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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 14, 1945
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
The War Department has recommended, and I have approved,
a request to the Director of Selective Service to reduce inductions
immediately from 80,000 to 50,000 per month. This figure will
provide only sufficient men to support the forces required for
occupational duty and to permit the relief of long-service men
overseas to the maximum extent transportation makes possible.
In justice to the millions of men who have given long
and faithful service under the difficult and hazardous conditions
of the Pacific Wer and elsewhere overseas a constant flow of re-
placements to the occupational forces is thought to be imperative.
Mathematicplly and morally no other course of action
appears acceptable.
Transportation by air and sea should make possible the
release from the Army of five to five and a half million men during
the next twelve to eighteen months. It is too early to propose
definite figures for the occupation forces which will be required
in the Pacific twelve months from now or what reduction it may be
possible to make in the strength of the Army force now allotted to
occupation duties in Europe. It is apparent, however, that we can
release as many men as can be brought home by the means available
during the next year.
The present problem, therefore, centers on the readjustment
of personnel now in uniform and the induction of new men through
Selective Service to permit the earliest possible release from the
Army of those men who have long records of dangerous, arduous and
faithful service.
Requirements for future induction into the Army will be
limited to the lowest age groups which will provide the numbers
of men required. Preliminary estimates indicate that the age groups
under 26 will satisfy this requirement.
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