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...Rusk remarked, as Soviet ships steamed home from Cuba with the rockets on their decks, "We're eyeball to eyeball, and the other fellow just blinked." In negotiating the understanding that ended the crisis, Andrei Gromyko's deputy, Vasily Kuznetsov, said sternly to his American counterpart, John McCloy, "You Americans will never be able to do this to us again." It was largely the humiliation of that episode that impelled the Soviet Union to undertake its 20-year buildup, of which the SS-20 program is one of the most troublesome manifestations...
...Kennedy School of Government announced the formation of a scholarship which would bring West German students to study public policy. The program was named after John J. McCloy, high commissioner to Germany and assistant secretary of war during World War II. The announcement sparked protests from Jewish and Asian students, who faulted McCloy for overseeing Japanese internment, derailing plans to bomb the railroad to the Auschwitz concentration camps during the war and commuting the sentences of several Nazi leaders after...
...even if the hindsight argument had any legitimate basis, the fact remains that McCloy to this day has no remorse for those unjustly imprisoned. He has made it clear he would not give a dime to any of the internees--to do so would be to "perpetrate injustice," he says. He takes this inexcusable position even with the benefit of hindsight...
Even after all the facts about McCloy's informed decisions have been laid on the table, we must guard against the tendency to be indifferent simply because so much time has passed. It's to easy not to care. It's too easy for McCloy to argue that we should forgive and forget--when he himself wasn't the victim. The internment was such a gross violation of basic human rights a raping of human dignity, that this sorry event should never be forgotten. The honoring of this man is a slap in the face of all Japanese-Americans...
There is so much more at issue here than simply the naming of the scholarship to honor one man's particular accomplishments, so much more than the Crimson majority editorial has considered. Because of the testimony McCloy gave at the Commission hearings and his recent article in The New York Times, the "McCloy Scholars' Program" will come to stand for his intolerable position supporting the internment and opposing any redress, rather than his accomplishments in Germany 35 years...