John J. McCloy, former United States High Commissioner in Germany, last night told the CRIMSON he has long had President Conant in mind for that post and is "delighted" that he has accepted it.
Terming the appointment "a very good and imaginative one" McCloy said that he congratulated "General Eisenhower and Germany as well as Dr. Conant."
At the same time, Shepard Stone, one of Mr. McCloy's assistants said that at the time McCloy resigned in 1951 he was eager to have Mr. Conant as his successor. "Everybody wanted him," Stone said, "but he wouldn't take it." Luckily he said both President-elect Eisenhower and the new Secretary of State John Foster Dulles were just as eager.
This unofficially confirms the rumor that in 1951 President Truman offered Conant the job an that he at that time declined.
McCloy stressed that Conant faces a gigantic problem in Germany calling that country "the center of most of the world's problems."
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