Word: atcheson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience was not disappointed in the show. Pat Hurley came out with a roar, both fists swinging. His white mustache bristled, his black-ribboned pince-nez wobbled on his nose. He pounded away on his main theme: that Career Diplomats George Atcheson Jr. and John S. Service (formerly in China posts, now political advisers to General MacArthur in Tokyo) had worked against him and the avowed U.S. policy of upholding Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government. Most specific of his accusations...
...That Atcheson, as Chargé d'Affaires in Hurley's absence from Chungking, had recommended a policy of furnishing Lend-Lease arms to the Chinese Communists. That, said Pat Hurley, would have made the collapse of Chiang's Government inevitable...
...Derogatory Leaks." Hurley was further incensed when he found that other career men opposed to Chiang were also placed in key department posts. Among them were portly George Atcheson Jr.,* now political adviser to General MacArthur in Tokyo, and China-born John Stewart Service, who was welcomed back to the Department after he was cleared of FBI charges that he had divulged State Department secrets (TIME, Sept. 3). Service is now Atcheson's assistant in Tokyo...
...toward the occupation happened to run side by side; the Japanese Government wanted the people to roll with the punches, MacArthur was not set for a haymaker. Each wanted to spar around, learn more about the other. As political adviser to MacArthur. Washington named plump, 48-year-old George Atcheson Jr., career diplomat and counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Chungking during much of the war. Able, experienced in Far Eastern affairs, Atcheson was a flexible man who could not be branded with any political label...