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...read in disbelief the majority editorial of April 27, 1983, supporting the naming of the new Kennedy School fellowship after former Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy. By concluding that McCloy's accomplishments outweighed his "failings," the majority editorial failed to put proper weight on the latter: It seriously underestimated the gravity of McCloy's denial of requests to bomb Auschwitz, his key role in the removal and internment of the entire West Coast Japanese American population during World War II, and his present outspokenness against redressing the wrongs committed against the internees. McCloy's failings with respect...
There is no doubt about McCloy's responsibility for the internment of the Japanese-Americans. He initiated the final push for mass evacuation and had direct responsibility for both supervising the evacuation and overseeing the camps. There was nothing humane about the removal and internment--120,000 men, women. and children, nearly two-thirds of whom were American citizens, were forced from their homes with as little as 48 hours notice, and imprisoned from two to five years in 10 barbed-wire "concentration camps" (the term actually used in the private inter-office government memos) located in some...
...editorial majority recognizes McCloy's responsibility for "whatever shred" of humaneness the camp may have had--but one must not forget also to recognize his responsibility for the considerable inhumanness that he was in a position to rectify, and failed to. To refer to McCloy's actions and failure to act as a mere "failing" is tragic understatement...
...clearly false to state that only through historical hindsight could McCloy have understood that the internment was wrong. The facts did exist back in 1942 showing that there was no "military necessity" for the internment--but those in positions of responsibility did not bother to uncover the true facts. Moreover, most of the known facts and exculpatory evidence was ignored Facts showed in 1942 that there was no threat of a Japanese invasion of the West Coast; FBI and Navy intelligence reports, and a special investigatory report ordered by the President, fully documented the fact that the Japanese-American population...
...object to the principle behind the usage of Mr. McCloy's name and believe that there are many more people more deserving than John J. McCloy of such an honor. Pauline W. Chew Mary Pye Akill Tysen Yvonne Sin Suzanne Matheral Marry Chavez Emilly Schulman