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...nomadic populations with little regard to border lines, could easily gain majority control of most of the country's area. This would, in effect, mean British control. Certainly the permitted entry of 100,000 Jews every two years would hardly meet Jewish DP needs in Europe. (Last week, General McNarney stated that "without question, 95 percent of Jewish DPs in Europe want to go only to Palestine...
WASHINGTON, February 12--Secretary of War Patterson declared tonight that if the proposed cut in the Army budget is made, "The current and long-term missions of the Army, including those of General MacArthur in Japan and General McNarney in Germany, will be jeopardized...
...really been running the show in U.S.-occupied Germany is smooth, hard-working Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, whose title has been Deputy Military Governor. This week he got the headman's title too. The U.S. War Department sent General Joseph T. McNarney to the U.N. Military Staff Committee and made Clay commanding general of U.S. troops in Europe and commander in chief of U.S. occupation forces in Germany...
...Germans win their way back to a decent place among the nations. In the guise of a small Christmas gift, the U.S. again acted on his promise. On Christmas Eve, in Frankfurt's icy-cold Römerberg Square, where once German emperors were crowned, General Joseph T. McNarney, European Theater Commander, announced an amnesty for 800,000 "lesser" Nazis. Purpose: to "encourage those who come under its terms to seek the ways of democracy...
...UNRRA operations. Morgan was suspended from the same post last January for saying that clandestine organizations were helping Jewish refugees to escape from Poland; later he was reinstated. He recently charged that UNRRA is an "umbrella under which Soviet spies are working." The next day, General Joseph T. McNarney, U.S. commander in Europe, announced that one Russian UNRRA employe had just been arrested as a Soviet MGB (secret police) agent. The Russians had taken a violent dislike to Morgan. So, apparently, had LaGuardia...