After consulting Army Chief of Staff General George Marshall, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, and Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, Eisenhower retained Patton in the European theater, though without a major command.

McCloy was criticized for several of his decisions as Assistant Secretary of War, including his support for retaining General George S. Patton in the European theater of operations, his opposition to the atomic bombing of Japan, his refusal to endorse compensation to Japanese-Americans held in internment camps, his refusal to endorse USAAF bombing raids on the rail approaches to Auschwitz concentration camp, and for his pardoning of convicted Nazi war criminals as High Commissioner for Germany.

Together with Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, McCloy was a staunch supporter of General Patton after the infamous " slapping incident " of 3 August 1943.

However, while in the field with General Jacob L. Devers, advancing eastward through Germany in early 1945, a " suggestion " from McCloy resulted in Devers ' Army bypassing and sparing the historic Romantic Road town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber.

President Truman refused the resignation of Lovett and McCloy when they and Bundy gave their resignations in September 1945 but Lovett returned to Brown Brothers Harriman in December 1945 only to be called back to Washington a little more than a year later to serve with General George Marshall as under secretary of state.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Richardson was associated with the Washington, D. C., office of the New York City law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, of which John J. McCloy was a founding partner.

Since then, Webster has practiced law at the Washington D. C. office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy where he specializes in arbitration, mediation and internal investigation.

In 1969, he was invited by philanthropist John D. Rockefeller 3rd, CFR Chairman John J. McCloy, and former Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon to chair a Commission on Foundations and Private Philanthropy, which became known as the Peterson Commission.

`` Chairman Khrushchev received the U.S. President's disarmament adviser, John McCloy.

Chairman Khrushchev and John McCloy had a terrible row at Sochi.

L-R: William Hopkins, Sen. Mike Mansfield, John J. McCloy, Adrian S. Fisher, Sen. John Pastore, W. Averell Harriman, Sen. George Smathers, Sen. J. W.

He subsequently commanded USS McCloy ( FF 1038 ), USS Spruance ( DD 963 ), the Atlantic Fleet's Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center, Destroyer Squadron Seventeen, and Destroyer Squadron Five.

Bank president John McCloy selected France to be first recipient of World Bank aid ; two other applications from Poland and Chile were rejected.

As Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy told Eisenhower: " Lincoln's remark after they got after Grant comes to mind when I think of Patton – ' I can't spare this man, he fights '.

* John J. McCloy, former President of the World Bank ( 1895 – 1989 )

The story describes one Gerald McCloy, who at 2 years old begins " talking " in the form of sound effects, his first word being the titular " boing boing.

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John J. McCloy, the foundation's chairman from 1958 – 1965, knowingly employed numerous agents and, based on the premise that a relationship with the CIA was inevitable, set up a three-person committee responsible for dealing with its requests.

She reports that John J. McCloy, while chairman of the foundation's board of trustees from 1958 to 1965, " thought of the foundation as a quasi-extension of the U. S. government.

The film Fuck the Police shot in 2003 by Anne McCloy captured one such gig at The Albion Rooms when the police raided and closed down an impromptu gig after complaints by irate neighbours.

The Wise Men: Six friends and the world they made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy ( 1986 )

On another occasion, when replying to another appeal to bomb Auschwitz, McCloy claimed that the final decision on the selection of bombing targets, including those attacked by American planes, lay with the British alone.

These and other pro-German actions by McCloy resulted in significant protests much later, when McCloy was announcing the Volkswagen Scholarship at Harvard University in 1983.

* The 1976 book The Jersey Devil and its 1998 sequel, Phantom of the Pines: More Tales of the Jersey Devil by James McCloy and Ray Miller Jr. tell the story of the Jersey Devil, and were the basis of the independent film, 13th Child: Legend of the Jersey Devil, Volume I.

After service as a captain in World War I, he joined one of the predecessor firms to Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, where he remained as a partner the remainder of his life.

In the United States Department of War in Washington, D. C., General George Marshall is informed that three of four brothers in the Ryan family have all died within days of each other and that their mother will receive all three telegrams on the same day.

He took the initiative to remove the woman's womb ; however, as she had not given informed consent for this operation, the doctor was judged by the General Medical Council to have acted negligently.

After hearing reports of and witnessing massacres in Poland, Canaris on 12 September 1939 travelled to Hitler's headquarters train, at the time in Upper Silesia, to register his objection to the atrocities ; prior to reaching Hitler he encountered General Wilhelm Keitel whom he informed: " I have information that mass executions are being planned in Poland, and that members of the Polish nobility and the Roman Catholic bishops and priests have been singled out for extermination.

All of Postman's books are informed by his study of General Semantics ( Postman was editor of ETC.

It also requests the government of the U. K., as the Mandatory Power, to supervise the execution of these measures and to keep the Security Council and the General Assembly informed on the situation in Palestine.

Asaka met with General Nakajima who informed him that the Japanese troops had almost completely surrounded three hundred thousand Chinese troops in the vicinity of Nanking and that preliminary negotiations suggested that the Chinese were ready to surrender.

General Lemay was informed by a senior staff member, Colonel William P. Fisher, that bomber pilots were turning back from these low altitude bombing runs due to heavy anti-aircraft fire from Japanese defense forces.

In 1569, Adam Bothwell, the commendator of Holyrood, informed the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland that the east end was in such a state of disrepair that the choir and transept should be demolished.

According to Colonel General Tukharinov and Merimsky, Amin was fully informed of the military movements, having requested Soviet military assistance to northern Afghanistan on December 17.

At the beginning of July the Chairman of Jowett Cars Limited, AF Jopling ( who at the time was also a senior employee with Blackburn Aircraft ), informed Jowett shareholders at their Annual General Meeting that difficulties had arisen over the future supply of car bodies.

During the election campaign Lloyd George talked of “ guarantees ” and Asquith ( in his Albert Hall Speech, December 1909 ) of “ safeguards ” which would be necessary before forming another Liberal government, but in fact the King informed Asquith that he would not even be willing to contemplate creating peers until after a second General Election.

In 1948, Chennault would make a controversial claim that General Clayton Bissell had not informed him of the upcoming raid, and that the raiders took unnecessary casualties because of it.

Chambers played an important role in the events that lead up to the Academy's foundation, the Minutes of the General Assembly of the Royal Academy 14 December 1768 record ' That some time towards the latter end of November 1768, Mr Chambers waited upon the King and informed him that many artists of reputation together with himself are very desirous of establishing a Society that should more effectively promote the Arts of Design '.

General Freyberg was informed of the air component of the German battle plan, and started to prepare a defence based near the airfields and along the north coast.

Wang also informed that Ma, on his December 11 visit to Hong Kong, was able to obtain records of his birth at Kowloon's Kwong-Wah Hospital and Ma also keeps the original of his birth certificate issued by the Registrar General of Hong Kong, thereby confirming once again his birth in the former British colony instead of the Communist state.

A French reconnaissance balloon, l ' Entreprenant, operated by the Aerostatic Corps, continuously informed General of Division ( MG ) Jean-Baptiste Jourdan about Austrian movements.

On 17 October, Montgomery informed Alan Brooke — Chief of the Imperial General Staff — that he felt the Polish forces had " fought very badly " at Arnhem and that he did not want them under his command.

* August 3: General Brown informed Mason he had it on good authority that Lucas was raising an armed force “ of some magnitude ” in Toledo to protect the court to be held there the first Monday in September.

United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld wrote his diary Vägmärken ( Markings ) as a means of understanding how conscience informed his public life.

Attorney General Spitzer hailed the settlement as " transformational in that it will provide doctors and patients access to the clinical testing data necessary to make informed judgments.

In May 1952, Prime Minister Oscar Torp informed United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower that he intended to try to convince parliament to change the Norwegian base policies to allow permanent stationing of foreign troops.

According to government archives, this six-month military operation was planned and carried out in secret ; the only people informed were the President Vicente Fox, the Secretary of Defense in Mexico, Ricardo Clemente Vega García, and Mexico's Attorney General, Rafael Macedo de la Concha.

The following day, the commander of the French Military Mission to Poland General Louis Faury informed the Polish Chief of Staff — General Wacław Stachiewicz — that the major offensive on the western front planned for 17-20 September had to be postponed.

On April 27 he was selected by General Henry H. Arnold as the prime candidate to command the 509th Composite Group, although he was not informed of the selection until September 1.