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  title info:
    title: Plowshares into swords
    sub title: the decision to mobilize the National Guard in 1940
  name:
    name part: Sligh, Robert Bruce
    name part: 1957-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Hill, Larry D.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Beaumont, Roger
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Carlson, David
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Hall, Claude
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Krammer, Arnold
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1990
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 240 leaves ; 29 cm
  abstract: In September 1939, as Europe went to war, the United States had an Army rated seventeenth in the world. The National Guard was a force, although partially equipped and trained, that could augment it. The Army quickly won presidential approval to increase both the Guard's size and its training, but not to the levels the Army wished. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was hesitant to take too large a step for the largely isolationist populist. The Army, too, moved cautiously in its efforts to train and reorganize the National Guard. The National Guard Association represented the Guard's officer corps and possessed one of the most effective lobbies at that time. It had long sought an increased national defense and funds without incurring substantial Federal control. From 1939 through 1941, the Association, at the behest of Milton A. Reckord, its able lobbyist, set aside its concerns over Federal control, if only briefly, and cooperated with the Army, but only if the Federal government paid for more troops and equipment. While the Association attempted to balance its state and national concerns, Congress grappled with the political costs of mobilizing citizen soldiers. Isolationists in particular faced the dilemma of strengthening national defense and restricting the growth of presidential power. Public Law 96 passed in August 1940 provided for the mobilization of the National Guard for one year, but restricted its use to US possessions and the Western Hemisphere. In 1941 Roosevelt requested Congress to retain Guardsmen, Reservists, and draftees. While retention of the Guard was not in serious doubt, it was tied to keeping draftees beyond one year. Passage of retention legislation by one vote denoted the nation's division over the nation's possible evolvement in the war. The Acts of 1940 and 1941 tested the National Guard as an instrument of national defense and expanded the Federal government's powers over the Guard. Federalized units served as training grounds for drafte…
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: History."
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1990
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: National Guard
    topic: Mobilization
  subject:
    topic: Major history
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 910806
    record change date: 20200904152534.0
    record identifier: in00001016590
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng