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...audience was not disappointed in the show. Pat Hurley came out with a roar, both fists swinging. His white mustache bristled, his black-ribboned pince-nez wobbled on his nose. He pounded away on his main theme: that Career Diplomats George Atcheson Jr. and John S. Service (formerly in China posts, now political advisers to General MacArthur in Tokyo) had worked against him and the avowed U.S. policy of upholding Chiang Kai-shek's Central Government. Most specific of his accusations...
...That Atcheson, as Chargé d'Affaires in Hurley's absence from Chungking, had recommended a policy of furnishing Lend-Lease arms to the Chinese Communists. That, said Pat Hurley, would have made the collapse of Chiang's Government inevitable...
...That John Service, as an adviser to General Joseph Stilwell, had recommended that the U.S. let Chiang's Government fall. That report, said Hurley, "was circulated among the Communists with whom I was negotiating" (for an agreement with Chiang...
Asked for proofs, Pat Hurley said that State Department documents would bear...
...Over the World." By the second day, Pat Hurley was tired, and he hit back testily at Senators who tried to trap him. But he was not through. He charged that U.S. policy was being defeated "all over the world." He narrowed the accusation down to Iran. Many in his audience had forgotten that Pat Hurley had ever been in Iran. Ears perked up. Hurley was swinging again. He startled his hearers by naming Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson as having taken "the leading part" in "interfering with and destroying" U.S. policy in Iran...