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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...John Jay McCloy, 63, chairman of the board of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Philadelphia-born, Amherst-and Harvard-educated. Lawyer McCloy left a thriving New York practice in 1941 to become Assistant Secretary of War, served until war's end, later became president of the World Bank, resigned to take over from General Lucius Clay as U.S. High Commissioner for Germany in 1949. In Germany he won the esteem of SHAPE'S Commander Dwight Eisenhower, has remained one of Ike's close friends...
...peace treaty with West and East Germany. Indirectly spurning Khrushchev's gambit, the allies suggested a Big Four foreign ministers' conference on Berlin and Germany. Suggested place: Vienna, to avoid the fog of failure that hangs over Geneva, site of many futile East-West conferences since the end of World War II. The notes named no date; France's Charles de Gaulle had insisted that to suggest a date prior to May 27 would make it appear that the allies were fearfully yielding to a Soviet ultimatum...
...week's end the State Department announced that the U.S., British, French and West German foreign ministers would meet in Paris in March "if developments warrant"-meaning if Moscow has replied by then to the allied notes...
Marine General Randolph Pate, 61, completes his commandant's tour at year's end, will probably step aside. Among the three or four three-star generals in line for the post: Nate Twining's Annapolis-educated brother Merrill, 56, brilliant tactician, now Commandant of the Marine Corps Schools at Quantico...
Even a decade ago, so successful a Drang nach Osten seemed hardly possible, for twice in 30 years calamitous wars wiped out Germany's stake in the lands curving about the eastern end of the Mediterranean. Yet in ten years, West German exports to Greece, Turkey and the Middle East have jumped from less than $10 million a year to $500 million...