Word: hoffmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here a telegram arrives from Paul G. Hoffman ordering Santa's release "on condition he go to Europe and sell ERP deliveries and make some rackets." The FBI man tells Santa: " 'Now you'll do business with the firm of Marshall, Lovett, Draper, Clayton and Hoffman...
Would the U.S., he was asked, continue purely relief ECA aid to a Communist or coalition regime in China? Not to an all-Communist government, he said emphatically. But Hoffman said he would recommend aid to a coalition which represented all the people: "If a [Chinese coalition] government were set up that gave the hope that conditions would exist which would permit continuation of free institutions, I think our government would be willing to accept a recommendation of continued...
...Hoffman must have known, there is yet to be found a Communist-dominated coalition which preserves free institutions. The first news dispatches in the U.S. press gave the impression that he had committed the U.S. to political support of a coalition government in China, that the Chiang government was already written off. In Honolulu, on his way home, Hoffman explained that he had been talking about "dealing with the people, not governments." In Pasadena, Calif., he pointed out, with mild irritation, that it was 'the State Department's prerogative to give or withhold political support. Before that...
After all the explanations and qualifications, the official U.S. position shook down to this: 1) Paul Hoffman, as boss of" ECA, had given it as his opinion that the U.S. would continue to give food and other non-military supplies to the Chinese people as long as possible (i.e., until the Communists took over completely, as they have in Mukden, forcing ECA to shut up shop; 2) the State Department, which has made no pronouncement of its political position toward China since the start of the recent Communist military successes, continued to be absolutely...
...great Sun Yatsen. Sun Fo last week was recovering from a leg operation and suffering from high blood pressure. He had not slept for nights. He had invited leader after leader to serve in his cabinet. None wanted to share the responsibility of continuing the war. After Paul Hoffman's Shanghai press conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Sun Fo went to Chiang with the proposal that the new cabinet be given Chiang's permission to seek a deal with the Communists that would...