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...control of Manchurian mines and other enterprises). In any case, the National Government may have felt a price worthwhile. It had already agreed to give Russia railway, naval and trade rights in Manchuria-though the Moscow press last week sneered at "impetuous American imperialists" (presumably ex-Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley...
...youth, as a coal miner in Oklahoma, handsome, irascible Major General Patrick Jay Hurley once killed a fractious mule by bashing its head with a two-by-four. Last week Pat Hurley, his Irish blood boiling, flailed an indecisive State Department and killed an official attitude...
...Church assured itself of an honest, fearless representative in a country brimming with touchy problems. Before Pearl Harbor, Bishop Hurley was the most outspoken interventionist in the U.S. hierarchy. As early as the spring of 1941. he made enemies among fellow Catholics by labeling the Nazis the chief enemies of the U.S. and the Church, and attacking those who feared Communists more. Early in 1943, when the Army was faced with a shortage of Catholic chaplains, Hurley accused some of his fellow U.S. bishops of an "inability to face the facts...
Long accustomed to fact-facing, Bishop Hurley was not likely to change his ways in Belgrade...
...confused wth Patrick Jay Hurley (no kin), U.S. Ambassador to China...