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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.
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John Jay McCloy ( March 31, 1895, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – March 11, 1989, Stamford, Connecticut ) was a lawyer and banker who served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II, president of the World Bank and U. S. High Commissioner for Germany.
McCloy was educated at Peddie School, New Jersey, and Amherst College.
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.
During World War II, as Assistant Secretary of War, McCloy was a crucial voice in setting U. S. military priorities.
According to Michael Beschloss, in an interview three years before the latter's death ( in 1986 ) with Henry Morgenthau, III, McCloy claimed that the decision not to bomb Auschwitz was President Roosevelt's and that he was merely fronting for him.
For his action, McCloy was later made an honorary citizen of the town.
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.
From March 1947 to June 1949, McCloy was president of the World Bank.
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.
The deal was therefore structured as an acquisition by the Bank of the Manhattan Company of Chase National, with John J. McCloy becoming chairman of the merged entity.
The institute was founded in 1963 by two former governmental workers, Marcus Raskin ( aide to McGeorge Bundy ) and Richard Barnet ( aide to John J. McCloy ).
The unit was activated as a result of a recommendation made in December 1942 by the Advisory Committee on Negro Troop Policies, chaired by the Assistant Secretary of War, John J. McCloy.
He was the seventh and last child of Beatrice Helen Booth ( 1920 – 1994 ) OAM and Peter McCloy FitzSimons ( 1916 – 1992 ), a citrus fruit farmer who had seen active service in World War II as an AIF artilleryman.
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.
Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy drafted a proposed surrender demand for the Committee of Three, which was incorporated into Article 12 of the Potsdam Declaration.
The sentence was commuted by John J. McCloy, High Commissioner of Germany, to 15 years of imprisonment in 1951.
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In 1934 McCloy found new evidence allowing him to re-open an action for damages against Germany for the destruction caused by the 1916 Black Tom explosion.
In April 1951 Conant had been approached by the Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, about replacing John J. McCloy as United States High Commissioner for Germany, but had declined.
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In December 1940 Lovett accepted appointment as special assistant for air affairs to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, in April 1941 Lovett became assistant secretary for air, John J. McCloy became general assistant secretary, and Harvey H. Bundy became special assistant to the Secretary of War.
Domhoff credited Lovett, Harvey Bundy and John McCloy with having a close working relationship ; and credited John F. Kennedy as accepting Lovett's advice to appoint Dean Rusk as Secretary of State, Robert McNamara as Defense Secretary, and C. Douglas Dillon for the Treasury.
In 1934 he gave important evidence on the 1916 Black Tom explosion to John J. McCloy, allowing a case for damages against Germany to be reopened ; presumably because of Germany's new Nazi government.
Concerned about the massive drawdown of USAFE and the United States Army in Europe ( USAREUR ), The US High Commissioner for Germany ( USHCG ), John J. McCloy had grave concerns that there would be insufficient troops to enforce the peaceful transition in his zone of occupation.
* John J. McCloy, 1912-Assistant Secretary of War during World War II, president of the World Bank, and U. S. High Commissioner for Germany.
He worked for Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley & McCloy, then Hale, Stimson, Russell & Nickerson.
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* John J. McCloy, former Assistant Secretary of War, former president of the World Bank, former adviser to several U. S. presidents
McCloy and Assistant
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.
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 '.
McCloy and Secretary
He volunteered as an assistant to retired Secretary of the Army John McCloy in the formation of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency under the Kennedy Administration before returning to Choate, Hall & Stewart in 1961.
McCloy and War
US Undersecretary of War John J. McCloy rejected the suggestion five days later, writing to Kubowitzki:
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.
McCloy and including
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.
McCloy and General
As McCloy informed General Dwight D. 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 '.
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.
McCloy and George
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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.
* Campbell, J., McCloy, R., Oppler, S., & Sager, C. ( 1993 ).
In addition to Admiral Burke, the other persons on the stamp pane were Admiral William S. Sims, Lieutenant Commander John McCloy, and Officer ’ s Cook Third Class Doris Miller.
On 31 January 1951 the U. S. High Commissioner, John McCloy, agreed to review the sentences from the Nuremberg and Dachau trials.
The sentence was later reduced to 10 years by U. S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy, and he was finally pardoned and released in 1952.
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