Word: mccloy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's wartime civilian chiefs have begun their exodus from Washington. Last week Assistant Secretary of War John Jay McCloy, policy handler for the War Department and its liaison man with the State Department, stepped out. A few days later the resignation of his colleague, Assistant Secretary for Air Robert Abercrombie Lovett, landed on the White House desk...
Baldheaded, 50-year-old John McCloy, World War I veteran, Wall Street lawyer, had served the Government for five years. He had handled everything from an idea for puddle-jumping artillery-observation planes to drafting Lend-Lease legislation. His most recent assignment: a tour of occupied Germany and China, from which he returned with sharp advice on clearing up foggy policies (see INTERNATIONAL...
Their empty desks pose a problem for War Secretary Patterson, who is also chafing, anxious to go (so is Navy Secretary Forrestal). To find successors, the civilian departments have to go out in the world and beg. There are few men of the caliber of Lovett and McCloy tempted by an assistant secretary's salary ($10,000); few feel any obligation, to serve in the War Department in peacetime...
This supported the stand of Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy. About to retire, he pulled no punches in demanding a clear-cut U.S. world policy: the place to start, McCloy said, was China. The State Department's Far Eastern Division, headed by John Carter Vincent, still wanted to go slow. They insisted that U.S. intervention would not solve China's basic problem...
...show. He did, and not even Chief of Staff George Marshall ever doubted who was boss. Neither did the three strong men who came in as civilian aides: Judge Robert P. Patterson, his Under Secretary, and his Assistant Secretaries Robert A. Lovett and John Jay McCloy...