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...Chungking from Washington came Major General Patrick Hurley's formal credentials as U.S. Ambassador to China...
Protocol called for tails, black vests and white ties. But the Embassy staff-21 strong-were tailless, so there was a compromise on dark suits. Pat Hurley wore his beribboned, bemedaled, two-star uniform. At 9 a.m. the staff ran through a dress rehearsal. By n o'clock all hands had gathered at the curly-roofed headquarters building of Chiang's Government...
...long hall stood the Generalissimo in uniform. T. V. Soong, Acting President of the Executive Yuan, who usually wears a business suit, wore a Chinese gown. Other Chinese dignitaries flanked them. Two abreast, with Pat Hurley in the van, the Americans advanced toward the hall. At the entrance they bowed. Halfway down the hall they bowed again. Then they advanced 20 feet to the Generalissimo, bowed a third time...
...Ambassador Patrick J. Hurley kept up his efforts to bring about agreement. Meanwhile, reported the President's investigator: "Chiang said that Americans expect his Government to make all the concessions. Why don't we [the U.S.] try to get the Yenan group to make some...
Impasse. Having thus shattered the ice in a way more formalized diplomats would have disdained (or perhaps have been unable) to do, General Hurley hitched up his chair and took an earnest part in the serious talks that followed. Few days later he brought Chou En-lai south for more parleys in Chungking. Fortnight ago Chou returned to Yenan with a proposal from Chiang Kai-shek for a Chinese united front (TIME, Dec. 18). For all Pat Hurley's war whoops, his easy jokes, his readiness to act as an intermediary, the gulf between the Communists and the Central...