U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy arrived in Germany last week and opened a new era in the occupation. The new Western German state should be on its feet in September; then a three-man, civilian Allied High Commission must guide its steps. The destination: full German membership in the family of democratic nations.
Starting with "every hope of working out a solution," McCloy would find his British and French, opposite numbers in a similar mood. General Sir Brian Robertson, now to be in high commissioner's mufti, has been firm and unruffled as British military governor. Scholarly, 62-year-old Andre François-Poncet, Ambassador to Berlin...