Word: chiangs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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's Government, and to effect unity between it and the Yenan Communists. Last week, back in Washington after a rest, Pat Hurley decided on a showdown. He wrote a statement. He wrote his resignation. Then he called on Secretary Byrnes...
Hurley's antipathy to John Carter Vincent goes back to China. Vincent had been Counselor of Embassy in Chungking under Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss. Then Vincent had taken over State's China desk. In Hurley's view Vincent and Gauss had no confidence in Chiang or in his ability to keep China afloat...
...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. commitment to do something that would actually help...
That morning Pat Hurley read of an attack in Congress on his China mission and himself by Representative Hugh De Lacy of Washington, a leftish Democrat. It followed the pattern of many previous attacks: Hurley had been more interested in giving supplies to Chiang to fight the Communists than he was in bringing Chiang and the Communists to unity; he had committed the U.S. to armed intervention. De Lacy's conclusion: the U.S. should express regret to China that she was a house divided and withdraw its forces...
...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-slow opponent of the War and Navy Secretaries in their efforts to frame a stronger policy in support of Chiang Kaishek...