John Jay McCloy

The Washington Post | March 14, 1989 | Copyright

JOHN J. McCLOY, who died the other day at the age of 93, was one of the band of New York lawyers and bankers who came to Washington to help win World War II and stayed on to build the peace. Of the many jobs he held, the most profoundly consequential was that of U.S. high commissioner for Germany from 1949 to 1952, the first years of democracy's return there. Today both Americans and Germans take for granted a strong West German state under a stable and effective parliamentary government. In 1949 neither of those things seemed certain or even probable.

When Mr. McCloy arrived in Germany, ...

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