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...other head, there is ample documentary evidence of requests for the bombing being directed to McCloy. One such request came from the head of the U.S. War Refugee Board. He detailed for McCloy the positive results such a bombing would have not only in saying Jewish lives, but in helping the Allied war effort...
...McCloy alone who decided to commute the sentences of many of the most abominable Nazi war criminals. Contrary to the implications in the Crimson majority editorial, it was McCloy's initiative that led to the establishment of an American review board which significantly reduced sentences war criminals received at Nuremberg. He did much more than simply follow their instructions...
...example, the War Clemency Board recommended death for all members of the Einsatzgrappen, the SS elite guard, who McCloy acknowledges were responsible for the deaths of 2,000,000 people. Nevertheless, McCloy exceeded the recommendations of his own board and commuted the sentences of these mass murderers...
...temporary acceptance of evil" does not mean that we must honor the architects of evil acts, particularly when they continue to defend the propriety of their actions. Whether or not the Japanese-Americans' relocation was motivated by war hysteria, and whether or not McCloy commuted the sentences of war criminals because of fear of communism, McCloy demonstrated far more concern for the entitlements of convicted war criminals than for the rights and lives of innocent Japanese-Americans and Jews...
...McCloy's postwar "benevolence" does not chance his status as a continuing symbol of disregard for human rights. If the Kennedy School and the Volkswagen foundation honor john J. McCloy by attaching his name to worthy scholarships, they announce to the world that they will condone bigotry and racism when expedient. We cannot accept such a decision. Debarah Kevesh for the Harvard Jewish Law Students' Association Joseph A. Cislowskl for the Kennedy School Jewish Students' Association Francis Mukal for the Asian Law Students' Association Jeffrey Mendelsohn '84 Chairman, Hillel Coordinating Council