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Behind last night's headlines about the bill introduced in Congress to draft war labor, is the name of a member of the Harvard Corporation, Grenville Clark '03. This New York lawyer, who in both World Wars has done his work in war preparations behind the scenes, was also the author of the original Selective Service Act.
Clark, a graduate of the Harvard Law School, was a founder of the Plattsburg training camps in the First World War, and was one of the leaders of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies before the United States enforced this war. After studying similar acts in Britain, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Clark urged that such a law was needed for "moral reasons," as well as for practical necessity.
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