Word: mccloy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters in the vast I.G. Farben building in Frankfurt, correspondents busily buttonholed U.S. officials and tried to pump them for news. Word had got out that High Commissioner John J. McCloy had received a new directive from Washington on U.S. policy in Germany. "I don't see what all the fuss is about," snapped one of McCloy's top aides. "There's very little in the directive that you couldn't have written yourself...
...directive, sent to McCloy by the State Department last month, did no more than to codify and sharpen U.S. policy as stated in the Occupation Statute for the West German Republic and the Allied High Commission Charter. It had served as a guide for the recent Acheson-Bevin-Schuman agreements at Paris (TIME, Nov. 21), reiterated the U.S. aim of making West Germany a peaceful, productive and democratic nation, closely "integrated" into the economic fabric of West Europe...
...Allies apparently plan to do little. They have left small staffs behind to run Western Berlin as though it were simply 2,000,000 people. U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy makes only short visits to his OMGUS office. The halls of the building that was Clay's command post echo" now to the irrelevant footsteps of janitors, shuffling past nameless doors...
...with the commission's prestige at stake, the French budged a little on the mark rate (to 23.8?); McCloy agreed to the anti-dumping and coal clauses...
Crusade in Europe (Thurs. 9 p.m. ABC-TV). Guest: John J. McCloy...