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...dangerous precedent to rationalize guilt with the argument that everyone has some blood in his hands. McCloy's wartime actions cannot be excited simply because others have done worse. Moreover, McCloy remains unrepentant, refusing to admit that his actions were wrong. Hillel should be commended for protesting the naming of the scholarship after McCloy...
...cannot ignore that two fervent watchdogs of Jewish causes--Martin Peretz of The New Republic and Lucy Dawidowicz, author of a book on the bombing of Auschwitz--have said in separate interviews with The Crimson that they do not see McCloy as a clear villain...
...figures embody this era's stars and smudges more than John J. McCloy. According to Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan J. Brinkley, in a recent article in Harper s, he helped run the War Department during the fighting, formulating crucial legislation "regulating labor, conscription, recruitment, promotion, and procurement, ...and he was closely involved as well with some of the most sensitive diplomatic decisions of the war." From 1949 to 1952, McCloy served as American High Commissioner to Germany, completing the sensitive task of rebuilding the country while securing its position in the Western Alliance...
...goodwill McCloy fostered between the United States and West Germany that recently inspired Volkswagen to fund a German-American exchange scholarship at the Kennedy School of Government in his name. But it was his hand in the more questionable practices of the period that has provoked Jewish and Asian-American student groups at Harvard to protest the honor and demand a change of name--a stance the Undergraduate Council lately endorsed...
...furthermore unclear to what extent McCloy influenced these policies. As assistant secretary of War, he oversaw the internment program, but no historical evidence credits him with the idea. And Brinkley, in his Harper's article, credits McCloy for whatever shred of humanness the program may have had. The refusal to bomb Auschwitz was again in the hands of higher military personnel, and Roosevelt and Churchill themselves. An American review board initiated the commutation of Nazi sentences; McCloy mainly followed its instructions...