Word: mccloy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SECRETARY OF STATE: 1) John J. Mc-Cloy, ex-U.S. High Commissioner for Germany and old Ike friend from the days when McCloy was Assistant Secretary of War under Henry Stimson; 2) New York's Governor Tom Dewey (who may prefer to serve out his term in Albany) ; 3) Statesman John Foster Dulles, one of Eisenhower's foreign-policy advisers during the campaign; 4) ex-ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman...
Some of them fell embarrassingly close. Apparently the State Department and Donnelly were correct in saying no "responsible" American official at HICOG knew of BDJ's covert U.S. support. The previous High Commissioner, John J. McCloy, had steadfastly refused to meet BDJ leaders. But shortly after the Reds invaded Korea, the U.S. cloak & dagger Central Intelligence Agency decided to prepare for a similar Red move into West Germany. It organized BDJ as a potential partisan group, and thought it could control its sympathies. Whether CIA was worried by the Nazi caste in BDJ is not yet clear. But last...
...more than 130,000 tons of valuable Krupp machinery. Britain carted away 150,000 tons of valuable scrap, systematically dismantled half of the remaining Krupp buildings. Krupp himself was tried at NÜrnberg, and sentenced to twelve years in prison. (Six years later, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy commuted the sentence to the time already served...
Rags to Riches. To most Germans, McCloy's departure, more than the unfinished debate in the Bundestag, symbolized occupation's end.*As he prepared to leave, allied troops, who used to ride free on German trains and buses, began paying their way. McCloy himself, the Germans recognized, had done more than any other man to transform the Bonn Republic from the status of a defeated enemy to the role of a needed friend. As the civilian successor to U.S. Military Governor Lucius D. Clay, McCloy injected $1.15 billion of U.S. economic aid into the emaciated German economy, helped...
...McCloy's toughest assignment was to persuade Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to accept the German Peace Contract and EDC, without which Western Europe would not trust the Germans with arms. When war broke out in Korea, the Pentagon called him home and announced that it wanted a German army within six months. McCloy said no; the development must be slower, else European unity would be imperiled. For weeks of table-thumping debate, McCloy and his sly, dry wit seemed to be everywhere at once: chivvying nervous Frenchmen who feared German rearmament, rebuking truculent Germans who seemed always to want more...