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Before the United Nations Organization could take over, there were many touchy issues on which Big Three consultation was needed. Washington put the atomic bomb at the top of the agenda (see INTERNATIONAL). On Thanksgiving Day, after a big dinner, Secretary of State James F. Byrnes had pondered the issues...
Pat Hurley said that he had no quarrel with Secretary Byrnes. But if hearings should develop substantial evidence of Hurley's charge that U.S. policy has been sabotaged within the Department, Jimmy Byrnes could not escape sharp criticism.
General Hurley had named no names, but Washington knew the men he refrained from naming. His main target was quiet John Carter Vincent, head of State's Office of Far Eastern Affairs and thus Secretary Byrnes's most influential adviser on China matters. Vincent had been the go...
Gauss resigned soon after Hurley's arrival. But Vincent went on and upward, became-by Byrnes's appointment-Far Eastern chief. Ambassador Hurley began to receive instructions which he considered detrimental to his mission and at variance with U.S. policy as he understood it.
Jimmy Byrnes's approach to a China policy had been frankly tempered by U.S. political implications, and he had put down his warnings in a memorandum to President Truman. The Secretary knew that a forthright, cooperative policy toward Chiang would bring down on the Administration the wrath of 1...