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Daniel Joseph Hurley...
...from Washington for one more great task. One day last November he was at his Leesburg (Va.) farm, where he takes a countryman's joy in pruning trees, growing sweet corn and keeping compost pits. President Truman, troubled and hard-pressed by the explosive resignation of Ambassador Pat Hurley, was on the wire. Would the General postpone his well-earned rest to do an emergency job in China? With a sigh, the General looked at his half-unpacked bags. Ten days later, he was on his way to Chungking, 12,000 miles from Leesburg...
...Senators wanted to know how. General Hurley referred vaguely to documents, then finally exclaimed: "All right, square yourself-here she goes...
...expected sensation which Pat Hurley pulled out of his pocket was merely a copy of the Declaration of Teheran (which he said he had authored in the original draft...
Next day Secretary of State James F. Byrnes rushed to his Department's defense. Calm, low-voiced Lawyer Jimmy Byrnes said he could find nothing in or out of documents to support any Hurley charge of insubordination, let alone inter ference or disloyalty, by State Department...