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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, McCloy, who has good reasons for hating the worst and loving the best of Germany, is getting ready to go back there as U.S. High Commissioner, the civilian successor to General Lucius D. Clay. McCloy will have to negotiate (which is what he does best) with the French, the British and the Russians, but his main job will be to bear a heavy share of the responsibility for suppressing the worst in the Germans, drawing out the best. For this people have the greatest capacity for good & evil in Europe, and the future of the world may turn...
Lieut. McCloy caught the eye of his commanding officer, General Guy Preston, a salty cavalryman who had fought at the Battle of Wounded Knee near the Cheyenne River, where in 1890 the Sioux made their last stand. McCloy went to France as Preston's operations officer in the 160th Field Artillery Brigade. Years later, Preston told another officer why he had chosen McCloy as staff aide. "One day at Fort Ethan Allen, I walked behind him after he had been riding. I could see blood all over his pants. I said to myself, any man who could keep riding...
When they got back to mustering-out camp in Virginia, Preston asked his young aide to take a permanent Army commission. But McCloy was already haunting the law libraries. Last week the general, now 85 and retired in Palo Alto (Calif.), described the scene: "One evening McCloy came to eat with me. I saw he was preoccupied. Finally he exclaimed: 'General, that abstract law is beautiful stuff...
McCloy will not have to "run" part of Germany, as General Clay did. The Germans will do that under the new West German constitution. McCloy's job is to see that the Germans do not transgress their constitution or the broad policies of the occupying powers. If they do, he and the British and French High Commissioners will have to step in and set the Germans on the right path...
Meanwhile, the Communists are increasing the military pressure with raids across the border. Brigadier General William L. Roberts, who will head the U.S. military advisory group in Seoul, estimates that 100,000 Korean veterans of the Chinese Communist army have recently returned to North Korea. They will add their strength to 200,000 Soviet-trained Korean veterans...