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Secretary Byrnes also declared that any violation of human rights is "a matter of common concern to all the republics. As such it justifies collective multilateral action after full consultation among the republics in accordance with established procedures."
In his swinging, Republican Pat Hurley violated every rule of diplomatic conduct and probably ended any chance he might have had to do any more diplomatic jobs for President Truman. But his public moment accomplished what many months of private urging had failed to do. He forced on Secretary of...
After ten months as U.S. Ambassador to China, 62-year-old Pat Hurley returned to the U.S. two months ago. He was browned off by what he considered to be State Department careerists' action: some of them were sabotaging his White House orders to bolster Chiang Kai-shek'...
Politician Byrnes told Pat Hurley that the President wanted him to go back to China and patch things up. Hurley brought up his past experiences. The Secretary avoided the past, talked about the future. There was no talk about a basic change in U.S. policy. When Pat Hurley left, he...
"Hydra-Headed Confusion." Next morning Jimmy Byrnes met War Secretary Patterson and Navy Secretary Forrestal to draft a policy directive for Ambassador Hurley. It was in the same nebulous terms as before. It called for continuing support of Chiang Kai-shek's Government but avoided any clear-cut U.S...