After 30 minutes of heated debate, the Undergraduate Council last night narrowly voted to urge the Kennedy School to "reconsider" naming a recently announced Harvard fellowship for a former government official because of his actions during and after World War II.

The council backed the objections of several student grounds to the naming of a $1 million grant after Former Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy, who served as high commissioner of Germany after the war.

The gift from the Volkswagen Foundation to the K-School will fund the K-School education's of 25 German students each year.

The council's letter is the fifth drafted by a student organization asking for a name switch.

In the letter to be sent to K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62, the Council charges that McCloy supported the internment of Japanese-Americans in 1941, commuted the sentences of Nazi was criminals, refused to bomb railroads leading to Nazi concentration camps, and had dealings with a company that used slave labor.

Jordan B. Millstein '85, vice chairman of the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Coordinating Council, read portions of a letter being sent by Hillel to Allison which calls McCloy's role in World War II a "dark moment in American history."

The letter--put forth by Academics Committee Co-Chair Christine A. Reuther '84--prompted a counter-resolution from council member Gregory S. Lyss '85 urging the council not to take a stance until it is better informed about McCloy's activities.

"I am Jewish I do not take this lightly," Lyss said, asking. "Are you saying we can't name anything after FDR or anything after Earl Warren?"

Lyss cited a recent Harper's magazine article by Dunwalke Associate Professor of History Alan Brinkley which argued that McCloy was merely acting on the orders of others and did not, for example, initiate the idea of internment camps.

A subsequent vote on the Lyss proposal ended in a tie, prompting a full roll call.

Lyss's proposal was finally defeated by one vote--32 to 31 with two abstentions--and the original resolution passed by 10 votes.

Hunger Strike Service

In other business, the 74 members present also approved a request for a $250 grant and up to $250 more in matching money for a Memorial Church service to be held Wednesday at the end of the seven-day fast protesting the University's investments in South Africa.

The service is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. and will be led by Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes Following the service the protesters plan to collect signatures for a statement that calls "for the ending of injustice and oppression everywhere," spokesman Abner A. Mason '85 said.

The fasters have invited exiled South African journalist Donald Woods and Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King to speak at the service, but as of last night they had not received replies from either.