There is "no resolution or bill under consideration" to scrap the student training program now being sponsored by the Army and Navy, stated Massachusetts Representative Charles R. Clason in a special dispatch to the HARVARD SERVICE NEWS yesterday. Congressman Clason went on to state that "any changes now being made are due to the action of the several services," and although "the Committees may file an advisory report, no legislation is under consideration by the Committee." The Committee referred to in the statement is the House Military Affairs Committee, of which Clason is a member.
This statement puts an end to rumors, started by stories run in last week's newspapers, that Congress would act to close these training programs. It does not eliminate the possibility that the Army or Navy themselves will reduce the programs. The War Department has already announced that it will reduce the ASTP program from 144,000 to 125,000 students by April.
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