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...raised by German industrialists who did not want to break up Germany's coal-steel cartels. The U.S. proposed a compromise. Its chief point: let the German mills keep ownership of enough coal mines to cover 75% of their needs. When the Germans balked, U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy threatened that if the Germans scuttled the Schuman Plan, he would impose even tougher anti-cartel measures. That...
...John J. McCloy, United States High Commissioner for Germany, praised the work of the German seminar. He said: "The strategic place held by students of higher learning in any nation makes any attempt to stimulate democratic attitudes and practices of more than passing interest...
...freeing Alfried Krupp (who had been condemned to twelve years' imprisonment as a war criminal), and reviewing the sentences of 100 others, U.S. High Commissioner John McCloy and U.S. commander in Europe General Thomas Handy relied on the findings of an advisory board* on clemency. McCloy commuted to varying terms of imprisonment the sentences of 21 others who wore red jackets-Landsberg's garb for men who are condemned to death...
...third step was a bid for German participation in West Europe's defense. Acting for NATO, the Allied High Commissioners in Germany-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick and France's Andre Francois-Poncet-quickly conferred with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. After a five-hour meeting in the Petersberg, the conferees agreed 1) to discuss a new "political basis" for relations between Western Germany and the Western Allies, and 2) to organize a military committee* that would study "the scale and manner" of the German contribution to West Europe...
...JOHN J. McCLOY...