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MAJOR GENERAL PATRICK J. HURLEY, onetime Secretary of War (under Hoover) and wartime ambassadorial troubleshooter (under Roosevelt), is a man with a lot of unwritten history in his system. He came into the hearing room in a mood that bristled like his dashing white mustache, promptly lit into the State Department. "A weak and confused foreign policy after Yalta," he added, ". . . is the primary cause for every international problem confronting our nation, and for every casualty we have suffered in Korea." Democrat Brien McMahon of Connecticut was lying in wait for him with quotes from Hurley's days...
...Martin telephoned MacArthur headquarters only once, on the first day, but had good knowledge of what MacArthur was thinking all week long. Presumably his go-between with Tokyo was Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War when MacArthur was Chief of Staff, wartime ambassador to China and, since then, unbending foe of Dean Acheson and the Asia policies of the State Department...
...Washington, Major General Patrick J. Hurley, 68, onetime Secretary of War and U.S. Ambassador to China, came home to surprise a burglar, roared into combat and came out nursing a few cuts and bruises. Said the scrappy general: "I put up a good fight. I knocked his hat off, but he finally knocked me to the ground...
...clearly the No. I challenger for reluctant Joey Maxim's light-heavyweight title, Matthews gives credit where credit is due: "I was a stinking boxer until I met Jack Hurley...
...fact that Harry had certainly learned the knack, whatever it is. Said Murphy: "He's terrific. It's like being hit with a freight train." Matthews, a lantern-jawed ex-G.I. with a wife and two children, takes a serious pride in his work. Says Hurley: "He works harder at it than any fighter I ever...