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...ASSIGNING wartime guilt, it is often difficult to determine who initiated and oversaw policy decisions. However, in the case of McCloy, the evidence indicated clearly that he was in a position of responsibility for his actions. During World War II, McCloy, as Assistant Secretary of War, "single handedly obstructed" requests to bomb the railroads leading to these policies. As assistant Secretary of War, he oversaw the concentration camps in Germany. More egregiously, contrary to popular belief, McCloy did not merely rubberstamp the decisions of the Advisory Board for Clemency for War Criminals. According to the Landsberg report, written by McCloy...
...Finally, McCloy, who played a role in the internment of Japanese during the war, testified early this November before a federal commission that the Japanese-Americans interned in detention camps during World War II are not entitled to compensation. McCloy, according to the New Republic account, said that everyone was a little put out by the war, which "caused disruption in all our lives." In view of such a record, the Kennedy School should honor someone other than John McCloy...
SURELY Volkswagen and the Kennedy School could have found a more praiseworthy figure in post-war German-American relations than John J. McCloy to commemorate with a scholarship program. If, as Jewish and Asian-American student groups--and such magazines as The New Republic--maintain, he was responsible for the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, the refusal to bomb the railroad tracks leading to German concentration camps, and the pardoning of Nazi war criminals' after the war, then McCloy is guilty of gross injustices. If, as the majority editorial argues, he was merely carrying out Roosevelt...
...letter--put forth by Academics Committee Co-Chair Christine A. Reuther '84--prompted a counter-resolution from council member Gregory S. Lyss '85 urging the council not to take a stance until it is better informed about McCloy's activities...
Lyss cited a recent Harper's magazine article by Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan Brinkley which argued that McCloy was merely acting on the orders of others and did not, for example, initiate the idea of internment camps...