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Robb: As far as you know, Mr. McCloy, do you have any employee of your bank who has been for any considerable period of time on terms of rather intimate and friendly association with thieves and safecrackers...
...McCloy: No, I don't know of anyone...
...Puzzled Banker. The board majority's view was more nearly summed up in Counsel Robb's cross-examination of John J. McCloy, board chairman of the Chase National Bank, former (1941-45) Assistant Secretary of War, who was one of the character witnesses on behalf of Oppenheimer...
...supposing some years later this branch manager told you: "Mr. McCloy, I told you that my friend and his friends had a scheme all set up, as I have told you, with tear gas and guns and getaway car, but that was a lot of bunk. It just wasn't true. I told you a false story about my friend." Would you be a bit puzzled as to why he would tell you such a false story about his friend...
This is not the first time in the last few years that the United States has made a major policy shift without sufficient inter-allied co-ordination. In 1950, High Commissioner McCloy announced that Germany would be rearmed. The French, who had different views on this matter, found themselves faced with a virtual fait accompli, and proposed a unified force (the beginnings of E.D.C.) as a compromise instead of a German army. The Korean War also illustrated the possible consequences of uni-lateral action. The situation that developed when General MacArthur wanted to bomb Manchuria resulted from U.S. failure...