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...Frankfurt last week came the kind of story that more & more headlines are made of: the Army had investigated TVA Chairman Gordon R. Clapp, and found him unfit for a temporary occupation job in Germany. The officer who leaked the story would not let his name be used, but he was willing to make a few large remarks under the protection of anonymity. ". . . Why would he be permitted to remain as head of TVA?" he asked. "I think it is a terrible situation and ought to get an airing...
...indeed a terrible situation, but not quite in the way the officer meant it. In Washington, an Army officer, also anonymously quoted, confirmed the story: Frankfurt had proposed Clapp for a 90-day A.M.G. job, but Army Intelligence had notified Frankfurt he was "unemployable." Would the officer give details? "Further comment," he said importantly, "should come from Mr. Clapp...
...Army tried to explain what had happened. A junior officer in G-2 ("Some damn fool of a nincompoop," said new Army Secretary Gordon Gray) had sent an unfavorable report on Clapp to Frankfurt without clearing it with his superiors. Apparently his only sources of information were newspaper reports of TVA-hating Senator Kenneth McKellar's shabby attack on Clapp when Clapp was made head of TVA; the Senate, disregarding old Spoilsman McKellar, had confirmed Clapp. The explanation didn't satisfy Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver. Said he: "This business of smearing the names of good citizens...
...Toward Frankfurt. Comments on McCloy's appointment as U.S. High Commissioner in Germany last week came from varied sources but were monotonous in content. George Marshall, Robert Lovett, Historian Douglas Southall Freeman, British Socialist Hugh Dalton, all said, in effect: "They couldn't have picked a better man." Some of McCIoy's friends, however, were sorry he took the job. McCloy knows it's tough. "No doubt about it," he said last week, "it's going to be a windy corner...
...McCarthy couldn't forget the wonderful time he had as a G.I. in Germany. He liked to sit up late with his memories, listening to German records and sipping wine by candlelight. In March, he sailed for Europe on the S.S. America. At the U.S. consulate in Frankfurt he said he wanted to renounce his U.S. citizenship. "I cry inside when I think about America," Dan confessed, "I'm homesick for my mother and the subways of New York, but my destiny lies here." A U.S. Military Government court in Frankfort this week sentenced McCarthy to eight months...