"The Congressman from Ohio."
"What you suggest, Congressman, is inhuman, unbearably horrible—you suggest that we support you in a bill to draft children!"
"To make my point more clear, perhaps I should ask some questions of my own. First, am I to understand that this group was at any time in opposition to Universal Military Training? And—second, is the youth of seventeen a grown man?
"Or shall I ask the question this way—where would you rather place these youngsters—in a position to possibly solve our dilemma, or in cities that cannot possibly be adequately defended, and have them marked for certain death along with the rest of us in them?
"You say my proposal is unbearably inhuman. You are right. War is. It makes little difference how you draft its plans.
"Are there any further questions?"
There were none.
"Very well. I will call for a confidence vote, with the chair's permission."
"Permission granted."
The Congressman from the south was very white. And very silent.