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Histrionic Patrick Jay Hurley got what he wanted: a chance to flail away at the State Department in the full spotlight of a Congressional hearing. A crowd jam-packed the big chamber. Ex-Ambassador Hurley had promised to pull no punches, to name names and dates and places, to expand his charges that career diplomats had done "an inside job" of sabotaging U.S. foreign policy, particularly in China (TIME...
...Hurley said that he had no quarrel with Secretary Byrnes. But if hearings should develop substantial evidence of Hurley's charge that U.S. policy has been sabotaged within the Department, Jimmy Byrnes could not escape sharp criticism...
Gauss resigned soon after Hurley's arrival. But Vincent went on and upward, became-by Byrnes's appointment-Far Eastern chief. Ambassador Hurley began to receive instructions which he considered detrimental to his mission and at variance with U.S. policy as he understood...
...Derogatory Leaks." Hurley was further incensed when he found that other career men opposed to Chiang were also placed in key department posts. Among them were portly George Atcheson Jr.,* now political adviser to General MacArthur in Tokyo, and China-born John Stewart Service, who was welcomed back to the Department after he was cleared of FBI charges that he had divulged State Department secrets (TIME, Sept. 3). Service is now Atcheson's assistant in Tokyo...
What made Hurley sorest was what he called the practice of some lower-level officials in State "leaking information derogatory to the settled policy of this Government." He added, in characteristic Hurley lingo: "I'm opposed to being leaked upon...