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Selective Service News
Major General Lewis B. Hershey, director of Selective Service, said today that local boards have been advised that a high school, college or university student irt a foreign country may be deferred if the evidence-submitted is sufficient to convince the local board that his work is satisfactory and that his activity in study is “necessary to maintenance of the national health, safety or interest of the United States.”
Officials at national headquarters stressed that the advice, does not mean blanket deferment of the students in foreign countries and that they are under the same obligation to keep their local boards informed of their student status as are students studying in this. country.
The advice was sent to the form of an amended operations bulletin i?Jo. 6$ clarifying the original operations bulletin, which has been generally interpreted to mean that student deferments for students attending foreign educational institutions were limited to Rhodes Scholars and Fullbright Exchange students.
The amended bulletin follows:
1. The provisions of section 1622. 25 (a).of the selective service regulations contain ample authority for a local board to classify a registrant in class II-S who is a student or who has been enrolled as a student at a college, university, or similar institution of learning located outside the United States when the local board - determines that the ' registrant’s activity in study is necessary to the .maintenance of the national health, safety or interest of the United States. Before classifying any such student in class II-S, the evidence submitted by or on behalf of the registrant should be sufficient to convince the local board that he is satisfactory pursuing a s full-time of instruction at a college, university or similar institution of learning and that, hisdeferrment to pursue such study is necessary to the maintenance of the national health, safety or interest of the United States.
2. A registrant who is a student or who has been enrolled as a student at a high school, college, university, or similar institution of learning located outside the United States may qualify for class 1-S within the applicable provisions of section 6 (i) of the Universal Military Train-V ing and Service Act, as mended, and section 1622.15 of the selective service regulations when the evidence submitted is sufficient to convince the local l>oard that he is satisfactorily pursuing a full-time course of in- - struction at a high school, college, university, or similar institution of leanring within the meaning and intent of the provisions of section 6 (i) of the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended.*
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