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...guilt, it is often difficult to determine who initiated and oversaw policy decisions. However, in the case of McCloy, the evidence indicated clearly that he was in a position of responsibility for his actions. During World War II, McCloy, as Assistant Secretary of War, "single handedly obstructed" requests to bomb the railroads leading to these policies. As assistant Secretary of War, he oversaw the concentration camps in Germany. More egregiously, contrary to popular belief, McCloy did not merely rubberstamp the decisions of the Advisory Board for Clemency for War Criminals. According to the Landsberg report, written by McCloy himself...
...figure in post-war German-American relations than John J. McCloy to commemorate with a scholarship program. If, as Jewish and Asian-American student groups--and such magazines as The New Republic--maintain, he was responsible for the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, the refusal to bomb the railroad tracks leading to German concentration camps, and the pardoning of Nazi war criminals' after the war, then McCloy is guilty of gross injustices. If, as the majority editorial argues, he was merely carrying out Roosevelt's orders, then McCloy was no more than an administrator and a bureaucrat...
...while he was assisting the American war effort, he also helped oversee the Japanese internment, he complied with American policy to refuse to bomb the Auschwitz concentration camp and he argued against easing immigration quotas for Jews. When overseeing the restoration of West Germany, he commuted the sentences of several Nazi war criminals, including the notorious Alfred Krupp, who ran his armaments factory with slave labor...
...favorite slogans, is stenciled on hundreds of roadside monuments, while colorful posters exhorting one and all to remember the North Vietnamese army's heroic sacrifices adorn shopwindows. In Saigon, now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, the airport is fringed by old bomb craters and littered with the hulks of U.S. transport planes. In Hanoi, the capital, the memories of war are cherished in details large and small. At the War Museum, a once stately mansion located near the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, visitors gaze upon such relics as the ID cards of captured American pilots, pieces from...
...letter to be sent to K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, the Council charges that McCloy supported the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1941, commuted the sentences of Nazi was criminals, refused to bomb railroads leading to Nazi concentration camps, and had dealings with a company that used slave labor...