Word: peretz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martin Peretz, editor in chief of The New Republic, said yesterday that when Kinsley had left the magazine for the Harper's post, he had told him "whenever he wanted to come back, we'd always find a place...
...high commissioner, McCloy--whatever the outside pressure--had ultimate responsibility for the decision to commute the sentences, argue Brinkley and Peretz Still, they point out, that outside pressure was great...
...Republic Editor-in-Chief Martin Peretz--who by his own admission has written "very critically" of McCloy--adds. "It is unfair to say be made the decision himself...
While McCloy's guilt--if any--concerning the Auschwitz decision remains in doubt, Peretz and Brinkley agree that he was totally responsible for the decision after the war to commute the sentences of 21 prisoners who had been sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trails. That decision came in 1951, when McCloy had held for two years the post of American high commissioner in occupied Germany...
...cannot ignore that two fervent watchdogs of Jewish causes--Martin Peretz of The New Republic and Lucy Dawidowicz, author of a book on the bombing of Auschwitz--have said in separate interviews with The Crimson that they do not see McCloy as a clear villain...