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Each after its own fashion. East and West Germany last week observed the seventh anniversary of Nazi Germany's surrender to the armies of Russia and the West. In a sleepy Rhineland village, John J. McCloy, U.S. High Commissioner for Germany, spoke up for the West. Germany and the allies, he said, "are taking three great steps at the same time: we are liquidating a war, we are making a peace and we are concluding a great alliance...
...Reds release political prisoners, restore civil rights, allow anti-Communist parties to organize and campaign? Would a free and united Germany, Russian-style, be free to join such Western alliances as the Schuman coal & steel plan and the European Army? Before committing itself to Big Four talks, said McCloy, the West "wants firm evidence, firm facts. We have all suffered too much -Germans included-to jeopardize the progress we have made...
United states High Commissioner for Germany, John. J. McCloy, will deliver next year's Godkin Lectures, Dean Edward S. Mason f the Graduate School of Public Administration announced yesterday...
...McCloy, a graduate of the Law School in 1921, has been U.S. High Commissioner in Germany since 1949. He served as a Captain in the Field Artillery in World War I, received the Distinguished Service Medal and was made a Grand Officer in the French Legion of Merit. A successful lawyer in New York for 20 years, he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War by President Roosevelt in 1941, and held this position throughout the war. He became president of the World Bank...
...Army was having servant trouble. High Commissioner John J. McCloy and the State Department have long wanted the Army to give up the 24,000 German servants who cook and scrub for the families of officers and noncoms in the occupation forces-with their wages paid by Germany. The Army would not hear of it. U.S. officers' and men's wives might have to do menial work, and that would have an "unfortunate effect on prestige and morale." Moreover, explained the Army solemnly, wives in outlying areas often have to travel 50 miles to buy groceries...