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  Lucius D. Clay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clay is considered the "father" of the Berlin Airlift (1948-49).
Clay was born in Marietta, Georgia, the sixth and last child of Alexander Stephens Clay, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1897 to 1910, and a direct descendant of the statesman Henry Clay.
Lucius Clay graduated from West Point in 1918 and held various civil and military engineering posts during the 1920s and 1930s, including teaching at West Point, directing the construction of dams and civilian airports, and by 1942 rising to the position of the youngest brigadier general in the Army.
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 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Lucius D. Clay (1897-1978)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
The son of Sarah Francis Clay and Senator Alexander Stephens Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay was born on April 23, 1897.
Clay's military tours were with the Corps of Engineers or in a teaching capacity at a range of army schools.
Clay then changed his stance and asserted that the protection of West Berlin and the sectors that would become West Germany was paramount to saving Western Europe from the spread of communism.
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 General Lucius D. Clay - The President's Man
Lucius D. Clay was born on April 23, 1897, in Marietta, Georgia, the youngest of the six children of Senator Alexander S. Clay.
Clay was influential in convincing Eisenhower to seek the presidency in 1952 and, after the election, shared the responsibility for identifying candidates for the Cabinet with Herbert Brownell, who would become Eisenhower's Attorney General.
Clay, still known as the "Hero of Berlin," was appointed the President's personal representative to the city, with the rank of Ambassador, serving from September 1961 to May 1962.
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 Truman Library - Lucius D. Clay Oral History Interview
CLAY: I think it would have been helpful if there had been a specific arrangement in writing as to which roads and railroads going into Berlin were under the control of the Allies, and which were under the control of the Russians.
CLAY: We were in a difficult position on this, because with the exception of the few notorious leaders, neither the British nor the French cared a thing about denazification.
CLAY: When I first wrote a book I said one of the questions that had to be resolved was when and how Germany is going to be permitted to have its own security forces and protect itself.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Clay, Lucius DuBignon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-21)
CLAY, LUCIUS DUBIGNON [Clay, Lucius DuBignon], 1897-1978, American general, b.
Clay was (1945-47) deputy chief of the U.S. military government in Germany and in 1947 became commander of U.S. troops in Europe.
Clay retired from the army as a full general in May, 1949, to enter private business.
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 General Lucius D. Clay's Testimony
General Clay responded that the committee had considered financing based on annual income, but that this would increase the deficit, which would have to be financed by debt adding up to almost as high a total of interest as the committee's plan.
Clay was confident the Treasury Department would advance funds to the corporation as needed, but not in excess of need.
General Clay, the record of the Secretaries of the Treasury varies somewhat, but few of them, regardless of what party they have represented, have been able to predict the deficit or the revenues wholly accurately, and the possibility certainly exists that he would overestimate.
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 Biography Of General Lucius Clay
Gen. Lucius D. Clay was born in Marietta, GA, on Apr.23, 1897 and died in Chatham, MA, on April 16, 1978.
Lucius Clay came from a line of distinguished public servants, some of whom are mentioned in official United States Annals: One of his ancestors was Kentucky Senator Henry Clay (1777 - 1852), called the ‘Great Pacificator' or ‘Great Compromiser,' in remembrance of his efforts in the 1820 Missouri Compromise.
Lucius Clay was born the sixth, and last, child of U.S. Sen. Alexander Stephens Clay; during his father's tenure, he served as a Senate page.
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Clay Elementary School is named for a man whose family has a very interesting history.
Clay served as deputy military governor of Germany in 1946.
Clay served as a personal representative for President Kennedy between August, 1961 and May, 1962 during the construction of the Berlin Wall.
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 Lucius DuBignon Clay, Jr., General, United States Air Force
After World War II, the senior General Clay, who died in 1978, commanded US forces in Europe, served as the military governor of the US sector of occupied Germany and was a force behind the 1948-49 Berlin airlift and the rebuilding of West Germany.
Clay III of Princeton, New Jersey, State Senator Charles C. Clay of Marietta, Georgia, Carla Berry of New Rochelle, New York, and Dr. Colin McK Clay of Fort Collins, Colorado.
General Clay was assigned as vice commander in chief, Pacific Air Forces, from February 1970 to September 1970 when he assumed command of Seventh Air Force with headquarters at Tan Son Nhut Airfield, Republic of Vietnam.
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 Frau Ilse Koch, General Lucius Clay, and Human-Skin Atrocities
She was sentenced to life for: "one count of incitement to murder, one of incitement to attempted murder, five of incitement to severe physical mistreatment of prisoners, and two of physical mistreatment."
Clay may not have been aware of these witnesses, because he said that the testimony regarding the "most serious charges" was entirely hearsay.
In other words, Clay was misinformed by his assistants, and Clay went on to write shortly thereafter that "he could take action only on that record" which he was presented with.
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 Lucius Clay
In June, 1940, Clay became head of the emergency Defence Airport Program and organized the building or expanding over 250 airports before the United States entered the Second World War.
Clay remained in Washington for most of the war as Director of War Department Material.
Clay retired from the United States Army in 1949 and went into industry and worked as Chief Executive Officer of Continental Can and Lehman Brothers, the investment bankers.
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Clay threw his support to Adams, who was elected and made Clay his secretary of state.
Clay retired for a time but in 1831 returned to the Senate where he headed the opposition to the Jacksonian democracy.
In 1849 Clay came back to the Senate where, in a great speech (Feb. 5-6, 1850), he outlined what became the Compromise of 1850, which again kept the numerical balance between slave and free states and perhaps delayed the Civil War by a decade.
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 Lucius D. Clay
General Lucius DuBignon Clay was the commander of U.S. forces in Europe and U.S. military governor in Germany from 1945 to 1949.
The son of Sarah Francis and Senator Alexander Stephens Clay, Lucius was born in Marietta, Georgia, on April 23, 1897.
Clay was declared a hero in West Germany and in the United States, where he received a ticker-tape parade below towering buildings in New York City.
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 Deutsch-Amerikanisches-Zentrum / Byrnes-Institut e.V.
Clay had known Byrnes for many years and served under him in the Office of War Mobilization, and was often outspoken in his attempts to clarify (even change) U.S. policy.
Clay weighed in during policy debates and was crucial in the drafting of Byrnes's Stuttgart speech, much of which derived from a Clay cable to Washington.
Lucius DuBignon Clay was born and raised in Marietta, Georgia, at a place and time in which memories of the Civil War and Reconstruction were fresh.
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 JEAN EDWARD SMITH PAPERS: FOLDER LISTING
Box: 1 Fold: 22 Clay, Lucius D. to Bowers, Verne L. DESCRIPTION: 1 TLS (photocopy) dated 9/27/1972 from Lucius Clay to Major General Verne L. Bowers, of the Office of the Adjutant General of the Department of the Army, regarding the declassification of Clay's papers.
DESCRIPTION: 1 TL (carbon) dated 5/29/1949 from Lucius Clay to E. Earle Rives, Judge of Municipal County Court, Greensboro, North Carolina, stating that Clay is not a candidate for the presidency of the University of North Carolina.
DESCRIPTION: 1 TLS (photocopy) dated 4/20/1945 from Lucius Clay to James F. Byrnes with references to the 4/12/1945 death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Clay's appointment by Dwight Eisenhower as deputy military governor of Germany, and postwar Germany.
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 Shofar FTP Archives: people/c/clay.lucius/on-torture-at-dachau
He claims, citing only a bit of gossip in a British tabloid, that a commission presented a report to Lucius Clay stating that physical torture had been widely used to extract confessions at the Dachau tribunal.
Lucius Clay in his autobiography ("Decision in Germany"; New York; 1950) states that the charges were investigated by a special commission (the Simposn Commission) and by an Administration of Justice Review Board appointed by Clay.
Clay reports that there were some improper methods -- including "stool pigeons" and "stage setting" interrogations used.
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 AllRefer.com - Lucius DuBignon Clay (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Lucius DuBignon Clay[dubin´yun, dUbEnyON´] Pronunciation Key, 1897–1978, American general, b.
Clay was (1945–47) deputy chief of the U.S. military government in Germany and in 1947 became commander of U.S. troops in Europe.
After the closing of the borders between East and West Berlin by the Communists, he served (Sept., 1961–May, 1962) as President Kennedy's personal representative in Berlin with the rank of ambassador.
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 CNN Cold War - Spotlight: Lucius Clay
Clay angered many U.S. officials there by going around the local military hierarchy and taking steps to restore the fading morale in West Berlin.
It was on Clay's orders that U.S. tanks were brought to "Checkpoint Charlie" after East German guards refused to let a U.S. official back into West Berlin until he showed his credentials.
Clay said his response proved it was the Russians -- and not the East German government -- behind the construction of the Wall.
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 Oral History - Lucius Clay
Interviews with leading governmental and military figures who worked with General Lucius B. Clay in Germany in the post World War Two era.
The interviews were conducted by John H. Backer as research for his book Winds of History: The German Years of Lucius Dubignon Clay (New York, 1983), and donated by Dr. Backer to the Oral History Research Office.
Interviews are of special interest to those students of post War Germany and the United States occupation.
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General Lucius D. Clay was deputy military governor, Germany (U.S.) in 1946 and commander in chief, U.S. Forces in Europe and military governor, U.S. Zone, Germany, between 1947-49.
At right is Gen. Lucius Clay, deputy military governor of the American sector of occupied Germany.
Hoover had also organized a relief effort in Europe after World War I. Clay did his part to help the German people, too, spearheading the airlift that broke the Soviet blockade of Berlin in 1948.
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 Frau Ilse Koch, General Lucius Clay, and human-skin atrocities
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Ilse Koch (her first name has two syllables; her last name sounds like the Scottish"loch") is the most famous of all Germans accused of having committed atrocities during the war.
It is fairly certain that the collection of medical specimens thus gathered was the source of the tattooed skin and the human head that turned up at the IMT as "exhibits" relating to people "murdered" at Buchenwald.
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 General Lucius D. Clay
Although General Curtis LeMay, commander of U. Air Forces in Europe gave the order for the Berlin Air Lift to start, it was Marietta native Lucius Clay who is recognized to be the driving force behind the plan, although he did not conceive the original idea.
Once convinced that an air-lift to supply a major city was possible, he immediately began to plan to move 4,500 tons of food a day to supply Berlin.
When more planes were needed in October, Clay fought the National Security Council and won, thanks to the timely intervention of "Give 'em Hell" Harry.
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