Word: atcheson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rescue teams pressed their search into the second night the survivors remembered what they could of the final minutes. One recalled his last words to Ambassador Atcheson as the B-17 glided closer to the tossing waves: "I'm sorry it had to end this way." Smiling a little, Atcheson had replied calmly: "Well, it can't be helped...
Denver-born George Atcheson Jr., 50, entered the State Department 27 years ago as a student interpreter at the Peiping Legation, had specialized in Far Eastern affairs ever since. As second secretary of the Nanking Embassy, he was aboard the gunboat Panay when it was bombed and sunk by the Japanese in 1937. Two years later he was recalled to Washington for a stint on State's Far Eastern desk, returned to China as embassy counselor in Chungking...
...Charge d'Affaires in Chungking, Atcheson was charged with insubordination by his superior, Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley, because he had recommended U.S. Lend-Lease aid to the Chi nese Communists in the face of the avowed U.S. policy of helping the Nationalist Government. Atcheson along with such other Foreign Service hands as John Carter Vincent, thought and urged that the U.S. could get along with the Chinese Communists. Although he was later defended by Secretary of State Byrnes, he was called home at Hurley's request...
...time the Hurley-burly fizzled out, Atcheson had been appointed political adviser to General MacArthur. In Tokyo he spent a hard few weeks before he overcame suspicions in MacArthur's headquarters of his political views. But career man Atcheson, like many another
...citizen, had learned the impossibility of dealing with Communists. He became one of the most determined and able opponents of Soviet meddling and delay in Japan. MacArthur appointed him chairman of the Allied Council for Japan and recommended him for the rank of Ambassador. George Atcheson's major job on the day his plane crashed: pushing through a Japanese peace treaty despite Russian obstructionism...