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Craig called Reischauer "by far our most successful post-war ambassador" to Japan...
...groups on campus, the naming of the scholarships--funded by the Volkswagen Foundation of West Germany to the tune of $1 million--has re-opened some nasty wounds. In particular, the 87-year-old McCloy is linked to some of the most enduring controversies of the war and immediate post-war period. As assistant secretary of war, he played an instrumental role in administering the Japanese-American internment camps in 1942. He also was influential in the Allies' decision not to bomb the Auschwitz concentration camp. Finally, in his capacity as high commissioner in Germany, he was the authority...
SURELY Volkswagen and the Kennedy School could have found a more praiseworthy figure in post-war German-American relations than John J. McCloy to commemorate with a scholarship program. If, as Jewish and Asian-American student groups--and such magazines as The New Republic--maintain, he was responsible for the internment of Asian-Americans during World War II, the refusal to bomb the railroad tracks leading to German concentration camps, and the pardoning of Nazi war criminals' after the war, then McCloy is guilty of gross injustices. If, as the majority editorial argues, he was merely carrying out Roosevelt...
...real impetus to the arms contest, according to the author, came in the post-war settlements. In contrast to Americans who believed that the newly developed and used atomic bomb had little leverage in U.S. foreign policy, the Soviets viewed the mighty weapon as the Allies' means to extract concessions from Stalin. Thus began the familiar pattern of Soviet attempts to match Western technological and military breakthroughs...
...representative of Hewlett-Packard, an American firm heavily involved with micro-chip technology, recently told a Harvard Business School group that America's share in the global electronics market has dropped from a post-war 100 percent to a current 25 percent, with Japan and other Asian nations picking up the slack. He did not, though, attribute this decrease to the inability of American goods to compete in world markets but to the decline in quality and numbers of science teachers in high schools...