Last week Franklin Roosevelt named the man who will be the top U.S. civil affairs ruler in occupied Germany, under the supreme command of General Eisenhower. The man: Major General Lucius D. Clay.
General Clay's appointment—requested by his friend Eisenhower—relieved an awkward situation in Washington. For four months West Pointer Clay, a hard-driving engineering officer and supply expert, had been Jimmy Byrnes's right-hand man in the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. A stern believer in duty and principle, he had backed Byrnes on the so-called "tough war" measures (curfew, brownout, racing ban, etc.), had sternly maintained that the first &...
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