Word: clayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Military Government's newspaper in Germany, Munich's daily Die Neue Zeitung is supposed to speak with a U.S. accent (TIME, Nov. 29). Last week anti-Nazi Germans thought Die Neue Zeitung was speaking in the same guttural nationalist accents that General Lucius D. Clay has been inveighing against recently. Said the U.S.-licensed Frankfurter Rundschau: "Certain [Germans] smile when they read Die Neue Zeitung, as they can find there everything they think and do not dare to say . . . Whether they read the column called 'Observer' or the letterbox 'The Free Word' they will...
...Military Government slapped Editor Foss down. It apparently saw no reason for a free press in the "American tradition" in a country that had no such tradition and was not free. An investigation of Die Neue Zeitung's policies and staffers was ordered. General Clay, visiting in Frankfurt, was told that Foss had said the paper had been "too much of a lecturer with a raised forefinger," but was now to be regarded "as a forum." Snapped Clay: "It was never the former, and it is not going to be the latter." He ordered Foss to stick...
...expense, Everett pleaded his case. Finally, last July 29, an Army commission under Justice Gordon Simpson of the Texas Supreme Court was set up to review the records.* The commission corroborated Everett concerning the mock trials and did not dispute or deny the rest. General Lucius D. Clay had already commuted the death sentences of 31 of the 43 condemned Germans. In Washington last week the Simpson commission recommended clemency (commutation to life imprisonment) for the remaining twelve...
...General Lucius D. Clay . . . he so judiciously and fearlessly carried out his duties in Berlin that his actions are tangible proof to the world that we mean what we say and cannot be bullied by a scheming Soviet Russia...
...General Clay answered that, with 40 more C-545 expected soon, an increase in the daily average would surely be forthcoming, though perhaps not as high as the Germans hoped for. One day last week the planes brought in 6,312 tons-the best day since Air Force Day in September and the second best since the airlift began...