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...controversial Yugoslavia the Vatican last week decided to send one of the Catholic Church's most controversial bishops, Joseph Patrick Hurley* of St. Augustine...
...appointing Bishop Hurley to its top diplomatic post in Belgrade, the Vatican took an unusual step. Except for Archbishop Paschal Robinson in Eire. Bishop Hurley will be the only papal nuncio who is not Italian...
Chiang had the U.S. emphatically behind him, backing, building, buttressing. Now, if ever, Mao had to agree-or fight. Would he come back to Chungking and try again? Last week Washington unexpectedly announced that dynamic Ambassador Hurley, who had brought Mao and Chiang together once, would soon return to China...
China and the U.S. would agree that the mission had been highly successful-or at least coincided with success. China had its treaty with Russia and it was peacefully debating with the once rambunctious Chinese Communists. No one, least of all Pat Hurley, would contend that the U.S. Ambassador had brought all this about. Chiang Kai-shek and Premier T. V. Soong had achieved the treaty with Moscow without outside help, and the treaty had immediately broken the back of Chinese Communist resistance...
...shrewd, gregarious Pat Hurley had helped smooth out many a rough spot before Communist Leader Mao Tse-tung traveled the road to Chungking. Behind his façade of storytelling joviality he had worked mightily and effectively for better U.S. understanding of Chiang's problems, better Chinese understanding of U.S. aims. Before he left Chungking a fortnight ago, he had received the final farewells of the Generalissimo (in whose residence he had lived for a time) and Madame Chiang. On the whole, Pat Hurley could feel well satisfied that he had accomplished his mission...