Word: harper
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...than a mourthpiece for higher Allied officials who had already decided on a course of action for strategic reasons. "McCloy was not in a position to order the bombing and was not responsible for the veto," says Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History Alan Brinkley, author of a recent Harper's article on McCloy...
...figures embody this era's stars and smudges more than John J. McCloy. According to Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan J. Brinkley, in a recent article in Harper s, he helped run the War Department during the fighting, formulating crucial legislation "regulating labor, conscription, recruitment, promotion, and procurement, ...and he was closely involved as well with some of the most sensitive diplomatic decisions of the war." From 1949 to 1952, McCloy served as American High Commissioner to Germany, completing the sensitive task of rebuilding the country while securing its position in the Western Alliance...
...furthermore unclear to what extent McCloy influenced these policies. As assistant secretary of War, he oversaw the internment program, but no historical evidence credits him with the idea. And Brinkley, in his Harper's article, credits McCloy for whatever shred of humanness the program may have had. The refusal to bomb Auschwitz was again in the hands of higher military personnel, and Roosevelt and Churchill themselves. An American review board initiated the commutation of Nazi sentences; McCloy mainly followed its instructions...
Lyss cited a recent Harper's magazine article by Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan Brinkley which argued that McCloy was merely acting on the orders of others and did not, for example, initiate the idea of internment camps...
...when writer William Goldman flew into L.A. for his first Hollywood film, Harper, a chauffeured limousine awaited him. Confounded by the driver's servile attentions Goldman wondered. "What does this have to do with writing." On the road, he saw row upon row of identical, sardine-packed houses and asked. "Is this a housing development?" Laughing, the driver explained that it was in fact, one of the poshest sections of Beverly Hills Goldman took this as a warning, thinking. "Be careful People are strange out here...