Word: mccloy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Warren R. Austin, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany John J. McCloy, Cambridge City Manager John B. Atkinson, University Librarian Keyes D. Metcalf, President of the University of North Carolina and former Army Secretary Gordon Gray, Poet Wallace Stevens '01. Ninety-year old alumnus Godfrey Cabot '82, Writer Thornton Wilder, and U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain and former President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company Walter S. Gifford...
Gallup selected nine possibilities, including Robert Patterson, former Secretary of War, James H. Duff, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, Margaret Chase Smith, U.S. Senator from Maine, Alfred E. Driscoll, Governor of New Jersey since '46, and John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, and asked a cross section of voters to pick its preference...
...even after the battle, inquisitive blueshirts still crossed the line to look at Western freedom, and were still warmly welcomed, fed and entertained. Eleven youngsters chosen at random were whisked off to lunch with U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy and his wife...
After lunch, McCloy showed up at RIAS, West Berlin's main radio station, and freely answered political questions fired at him by 300 assembled blueshirts. At the end of the two-hour session Peter Nellen, a member of the West German Bundestag, put a question to them: If the blueshirts were at home, would Gen. Vasily I. Chuikov, East Germany's Russian boss, face them in similar fashion? There was an embarrassed silence, a little laughter, and then a cry of "No!" In Berlin's torn city, kindness, coolness and candor had proved to be the most...
...Valuable Services." U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy, arriving back on the scene from a U.S. visit, tried to retrieve the initial blunder. Police decoys, he admitted, are unloved characters anywhere. But the U.S. intervened in his case not for "valuable services" rendered the West, but because Kemritz had only aided an occupation power (Russia) in its legal right to arrest a suspected war criminal. To let a German court sentence him for doing so, said McCloy, would only encourage old Nazis to come out of their holes, start endless legal proceedings. It was a legalistic argument, and an unpopular...