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Back up the mountain road to the Petersberg drove Adenauer & Co. They told the three high commissioners-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's General Sir Brian Robertson, France's Andre François-Poncet-that they were ready to make the 22½? rate public at once. But the commissioners, whose powers under the Occupation Statute give them control over foreign exchange, asked the Germans to wait...
...limousines rode Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and five members of his day-old Cabinet. A guard of honor of ten U.S., ten British, ten French soldiers snapped to attention for the Germans. Waiting in a drawing room were the high commissioners: the U.S.'s cagey, hard-driving John J. McCloy, France's scholarly, elegant André Francois-Poncet, Britain's shy, gruff General Sir Brian Robertson. Facing the commissioners across a red carpet, Adenauer announced formally that he had formed his government. In a brief speech he paid tribute to the Allies' help to Germany, expressed...
...HICOG (High Commission for Germany), McCloy has had to build a new staff from the ground up. The only two Clay men are Major General George P. Hays, deputy military governor, who will stay on as McCloy's deputy, and Major General James P. Hodges. Among the new members of McCloy's "cabinet" are the State Department's old Germany hand, James Riddleberger, who will be in charge of political affairs; Benjamin J. Buttenwieser, formerly of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in New York, who is assistant high commissioner; and Labor Director Harvey W. Brown, former A.F.L. official...
Gent In a Morning Coat. Before tackling his vast problems, McCloy spent some time sweeping away the musty remnants of military government. He ordered removal of all signs on U.S. homes proclaiming: "No Entrance for German Civilians"; he lifted a ban on Americans eating in German restaurants; he ordered all officials who come in contact with Germans to learn to speak German forthwith...
...McCloy's officials last week explained HICOG's functions to TIME Correspondent David Richardson: "A high commissioner," he said, "is an ambassador with a great big horn. Whenever possible, he will talk quietly through the horn. Occasionally he may have to holler through it. But because he is, after all, a gent in a morning coat, he will count past 100 before he will even think of conking anyone with...