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Meetings of the Allied Council, meanwhile, grow more farcical daily. Every suggestion of the Russian representatives is taken as a personal insult by George Atcheson, U. S. Delegate, who cries "Communist propaganda" at Russian suggestions which the British, even, are willing to accept...
...thereby encourage Communism. We did it in Italy, we are doing it in the Philippines, China, and Japan. The last is the most inexcusable; for there we started clean, have a growing democratic consciousness to work with, and are muffing the opportunity. In common opposition to Russia, Mr. Atcheson is now lined up with the same Japanese who lined up with Tojo five years age this morning...
...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...
...View. Explained Jimmy Byrnes: George Atcheson had submitted "a broad and thoughtful analysis of the [China] situation as it appeared to him ... an honest effort to assist the Department of State in the formulation of its future policy." John Service had written, in "forceful language" and with some "rather drastic" conclusions, "recommendations for a basic change in U.S. policy" toward Chiang's Government. But this, purred Jimmy Byrnes, was merely one foreign-service man's view, expressed through the proper channels...