Yours of August 6th concerning the proposed new Draft Law has been received and given careful attention. I wish to say that you voice my sentiments in this matter much more elegantly than I could express them. I am deeply convinced that it would be a grievous blunder if not a fatal mistake to draft children into military service, and unless I see the matter in an entirely different light from the way it has yet been presented, I shall be compelled to oppose this legislation much as I deplore opposing anything the administration requests.