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General Lewis B. Hershey and Conscientious Objection During World War II

Nicholas A. Krehbiel (Author)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: An Emphasis on Service: Civilian Public Service and the Citizen Soldier Tradition -- Chapter 2: Background and Beliefs of Hershey -- Chapter 3: History and Demands of Manpower and Conscientious Objection -- Chapter 4: The Early Agents of Objection and Conscription: The Historic Peace Churches, the Interwar Years, and the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 -- Chapter 5: Hershey and Conscientious Objection during the Peacetime Draft, September 1940-December 1941 -- Chapter 6: Hershey and Conscientious Objection in the Time of War, 1941-1944 -- Chapter 7: Hershey and Congress Examine Conscientious Objection -- Chapter 8: Hershey and the End of Civilian Public Service, 1945-1946 -- Chapter 9: Hershey and the Legacy of Alternative Service -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

eBook, English, 2014
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 2014