Word: mccloy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Military men and politicians had known all along that plans for Western Europe's defense made no sense unless they included a West German army. By last week Winston Churchill, Dean Acheson, U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had publicly indicated that some degree of German rearmament was in the cards. But despite all these wisps of smoke, there was no fire...
From the businessmen came shouts of "nein, nein." Replied McCloy sharply: "Well, anyway, U.S. taxes are much higher than before because of German aggression...
...complaint that reorganization of the West German coal and steel industries was going too slowly, McCloy answered: "Look, I know something about reorganization. I worked on reorganization of U.S. railroads. Your problems are no worse than those were." On the refugee problem, he observed: "You ought to see the good side of it"-meaning the West Germans ought to be grateful for the skills and energy that refugees have added to the West German economy...
...forget who started this war," concluded McCloy sternly. "Whether or not you gentlemen here are responsible personally for it, remember the war and all the misery that followed it-including your own-was born and bred in German soil and you must accept the responsibility...
When he had done, his audience applauded him loudly and with apparent sincerity. Said an admiring McCloy aide: "The old man really let 'em have...