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...Volkswagen officials in Germany, the donors of a controversial $2 million grant to the Kennedy School of Government, this week indicated their intention to stand by their decision to name the grant after a former federal official, a program administrator said yesterday...
...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...
...story of the rebuilding of German-American relations is populated by characters with shadowy pasts, Volkswagen should leave the scholarships unnamed rather than honor a man who deserves at least partial blame for several of the darker spots on the pages of our nation's history...
...goodwill McCloy fostered between the United States and West Germany that recently inspired Volkswagen to fund a German-American exchange scholarship at the Kennedy School of Government in his name. But it was his hand in the more questionable practices of the period that has provoked Jewish and Asian-American student groups at Harvard to protest the honor and demand a change of name--a stance the Undergraduate Council lately endorsed...
...gift from the Volkswagen Foundation to the K-School will fund the K-School education's of 25 German students each year...