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Global Head? Once each week he meets with the Army War Council: Stimson, Arnold, McNarney, Assistant Secretaries Robert Abercrombie Lovett (Air) and John J. McCloy (general utility), and able Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair, Chief of the Army's Ground Forces, who has the biggest direct command in the service. At these conferences, General Marshall does not have to consult world maps. He carries his war map in his head...
...Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, speaking to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, gave the first official intimation of a very secret figure. He said that U.S. forces serving overseas now total more than 500,000. This is three times as many as had gone abroad in a similar period in World...
...John Jay McCloy, 47, is a Manhattan lawyer who, as Assistant Secretary of War, is both right-&-left-hand man to Henry L. Stimson. As an old World War I artilleryman, he commands the respect of combat generals, often gives them a useful new idea, such as using puddlejumper planes for observation work (see p. 72). Affable and efficient, he hurries conversations along with a pleasant "yep, yep," puffs away at thick cigars, flicks the ashes deftly into a wastebasket four feet away, occasionally extracts a bell-shaped chocolate drop from a pile on the desk. His duties have included...
Judge Denman accused John J. McCloy, Assistant Secretary of War, of the new crime of "bureaucratic omniscience" for coming to DeWitt's defense. He prepared a petition to Congress, printed 5,000 exhibits of a letter he had written McCloy...
...reply, able Mr. McCloy (see p. 20) backed DeWitt to the hilt. Wrote he: "I know of no Army officer in whom I would place greater confidence. He has thought of more dangers that might threaten the West Coast than even you with your alert mind have thus far conceived...