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Charging that the program's namesake, former Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, supported the decision to intern Japanese Americans during World War II, opposed the bombing of the German concentration camp at Auschwitz, and commuted the death sentences of convicted Nazi war criminals, the letters urge the K-School to change the name of the program...
Returning this week from a visit to Germany, where he interviewed applicants for the McCloy Scholarship, James A. Cooney '69, assistant director of the program, said he and the program's director, Guido Goldman, informed Volkswagen officials of the students' objections at a dinner welcoming the K-School delegation...
...Cooney quoted Goldman as saying that the K-School "still falt very honored to accept a grant in [McCloy's] name...
...response to these arguments, the protest letter from Hillel states that "McCloy served as more than a mere spokesman for the decisions of the Roosevelt administrations. His recommendations and suggested policies carried great weight, and it clearly-fell within his power to protest those policies he felt were improper." Such logic may be true, but if it is used to determine what historical figure merits honor, then few would pass. It would certainly disqualify Roosevelt and Churchill, and Earl Warren, who shaped the internment in California. The founding fathers, who could have banned slavery but instead helped strengthen it, would...
...where the definitions of both shift drastically over time, it is impossible to impose such standards of perfection in dispensing honors. Instead, one must in each case compare an individual's accomplishments with his failings, and determine which side dominates. We agree with the consensus of several historians that McCloy deserves more honor than calumny...