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...study public policy. The program was named after John J. McCloy, high commissioner to Germany and assistant secretary of war during World War II. The announcement sparked protests from Jewish and Asian students, who faulted McCloy for overseeing Japanese internment, derailing plans to bomb the railroad to the Auschwitz concentration camps during the war and commuting the sentences of several Nazi leaders after...
...naming of the new Kennedy School fellowship after former Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy. By concluding that McCloy's accomplishments outweighed his "failings," the majority editorial failed to put proper weight on the latter: It seriously underestimated the gravity of McCloy's denial of requests to bomb Auschwitz, his key role in the removal and internment of the entire West Coast Japanese American population during World War II, and his present outspokenness against redressing the wrongs committed against the internees. McCloy's failings with respect to the internment and redress issue alone argue against honoring him with a fellowship...
...Student Board of Education for Action, are opposed to Harvard University's usage of the name John J. McCloy for the new Kennedy School scholarship. We find it inappropriate that Mr. McCloy, who during World War Il opposed bombing rail lines to Auschwitz, gave clemency to German capitalists who used slave labor, and commuted the death sentences of convicted Nazi criminals, be honored with such a scholarship Most recently in a April 10, 1983 New York Times editorial. Mr. McCloy defended the decision to intern Japanese-Americans just as he had as Franklin D Roosevelt's Assistant Secretary...
...another continent, a horror in which Americans had no part either as victims or persecutors? Americans have their own native horrors. Why not a memorial museum to black slavery? Why not a memorial to the American Indian culture? The American conscience could be engaged much closer to home than Auschwitz...
...evil to forget? Is it necessary to remember? Perhaps remembrance is a matter of sociobiology. Perhaps we remember what it is necessary to remember for survival, and we forget what it is necessary to forget. The author Elie Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, states the case on eloquently pragmatic grounds: "Memory is our shield, our only shield." To Wiesel, only memory can immunize mankind against a repetition of the slaughter...