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...that the majority of Crimson editors support Harvard's honoring a man who symbolizes several of the most serious blemishes on this country's human rights record. It is a disgrace that the April 27 majority editorial endorses the naming of a "reverse Rhodes" scholarship program for John J. McCloy...
...McCloy's involvements with Japanese-Americans, with Holocaust victims, and with Nazi war criminals were not merely those of an administrator "only following orders," nor did he simply support policies that turned out in hindsight to be wrong...
Even today, McCloy refuses to recognize that the American government erred in its wartime internment of Japanese-Americans. Despite Congressional findings to the contrary, McCloy denies that he and other decision-makers were guided by war hysteria and racial prejudice. We are appalled that Crimson editors, who acknowledge that wartime hysteria caused the internment, accept the continuing racism of a man who still maintains that 120,000 innocent Japanese-Americans were interned because of "military necessity...
...McCloy played a key role in the decision not to bomb Auschwitz or the railroad tracks leading to the camp where millions of Jews were murdered. Despite McCloy's assertion that President Roosevelt made the decision not to bomb, David Wyman, a leading expert on the Holocaust, has found "do documentary evidence that the bombing decision ever came to Roosevelt...
...eighth student group voted Friday to join in protesting the naming of a Kennedy School of Government Scholarship after former High Commissioner of Germany John J. McCloy...