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Radio Yenan also had a bad word for Chungking's No. 1 ally, the U.S. American policy toward China (said Yenan) has become "definitely imperialistic"; it seeks to reduce China to a "colony or semi-colony" ; U.S. Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley (who tried valiantly to bring Chungking and Yenan together) is responsible for an anti-Communist shift in U.S. policy; he had misrepresented the situation to Washington; China must now choose between the "false democracy supported by the U.S. and the real democracy sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party...
...Great progress has recently been made in cooperation with the U.S. [Lieut.] General Wedemeyer [Chiang's U.S. chief of staff] has made a distinctive contribution. . . . [Major] General Hurley [U.S. Ambassador in Chungking] has helped immeasurably...
Second, we have got to make constructive the criticisms that are justified, of things that are bad, sometimes very bad indeed. I want to pay tribute to General [Patrick] Hurley* and Donald Nelson† in this respect. They got off to a wonderful start because they have been sympathetic and constructive as well as critical. Their approach was not, "Now, China, you are our problem. What shall we do with you?" But rather, "China, you have some problems. How can we help you with the problems? How can we help each other most?" There is a world of difference...
...proposed that all news going to the U.S. be passed by Chinese censors if it was acceptable to two American officials -Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer for military news, and Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley for political news. . . . The Generalissimo agreed. . . . He said he would request action . . . and this dispatch was the first filed under the new system...
Among other things, the interview was not exclusive : Cecil Dickson of the Gan nett newspapers was along; so was Vice Minister of Information Hollington Tong, who pointed out, with Chinese courtesy, that Taylor must have suffered from a "misunderstanding." U.S. Ambassador Pat Hurley was not so gentle. Said...