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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
MINNEAPOLIS 14
November 1, 1945
P.P.F.200
to Congress
10.2
Con B
Honorable Harry L. Truman
President of the United States
Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President:
May I respectfully suggest that your recent message to the Congress
of the United States in favor of peacetime compulsory military train-
ing for our American boys was a shock and bitter disappointment. In
this age of atomic energy the idea of placing our dependency upon
large armies and navies appears to many of us both as an anchorism
in our present civilization and frought with the utmost dangers to the
safety and well being of our people as well as to the very continuance
of democratic government. Never in history has democracy survived long
side by side with the support of massive military establishments
It is our conviction that dependence upon the form of military power
heretofore used for warfare is obsolete. In fact, resort to war seemed
obsolete in a modern world of atomic energy. Therefore, all our energy,
all our dependence, should be focused primarily upon the establishment
of some form of international machinery for effective world government
for the solution of international problems.
Respectfully yours,
Nelson L. Bossing
Professor of Education
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