McCloy

The Crimson received the following copy of the following letter to Graham Allison, dean of the Kennedy School of Government.

Dean Dean Allison

We, the Student Board of Education for Action, are opposed to Harvard University's usage of the name John J. McCloy for the new Kennedy School scholarship. We find it inappropriate that Mr. McCloy, who during World War Il opposed bombing rail lines to Auschwitz, gave clemency to German capitalists who used slave labor, and commuted the death sentences of convicted Nazi criminals, be honored with such a scholarship Most recently in a April 10, 1983 New York Times editorial. Mr. McCloy defended the decision to intern Japanese-Americans just as he had as Franklin D Roosevelt's Assistant Secretary of War.

We object to the principle behind the usage of Mr. McCloy's name and believe that there are many more people more deserving than John J. McCloy of such an honor. Pauline W. Chew   Mary Pye   Akill Tysen   Yvonne Sin   Suzanne Matheral   Marry Chavez   Emilly Schulman