Word: mccloy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freeing Alfried Krupp (who had been condemned to twelve years' imprisonment as a war criminal), and reviewing the sentences of 100 others, U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy and U.S. commander in Europe General Thomas Handy relied on the findings of an advisory board* on clemency. McCloy commuted to varying terms of imprisonment the sentences of 21 others who wore red jackets-Landsberg's garb for men who are condemned to death...
...third step was a bid for German participation in West Europe's defense. Acting for NATO, the Allied High Commissioners in Germany-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick and France's Andre Francois-Poncet-quickly conferred with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. After a five-hour meeting in the Petersberg, the conferees agreed 1) to discuss a new "political basis" for relations between Western Germany and the Western Allies, and 2) to organize a military committee* that would study "the scale and manner" of the German contribution to West Europe...
...JOHN J. McCLOY...
...High Commissioner John J. McCloy felt last week that it was time for Americans to say a word or two. In the High Commission's German-language Neue Zeitung appeared a blunt statement of the High Commission's views. It was addressed both to the Germans and the intransigent French...
Before High Commissioner John J. McCloy took off for the U.S., where he will sit in on the Big Three Foreign Ministers' conference scheduled to open next week in New York City, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer handed him two notes. They contained requests from West Germany which will be submitted to the ministers. In one note, Adenauer asked that the Occupation Statute be revised so as to give West Germany more independence. In his second note, Adenauer tackled the far more crucial question of West Germany's defense...